Pending updates

[JeltevanBoheemen]

There are a number of pending changes, made by @JanOdijk that should be integrated in the main branches. These influence SASTA functionality to greater or lesser extent, and should thus be thoroughly checked and tested for compatibility.

Pending branches, subject to change:

• subj
  • the changes were applied to an outdated version of master. Propose cherry-picking relevant commits:
  • list of commits to cherry-pick:
    • ef0ef931e12c975497976ab8553ecd091cce7713
    • ee85edbce264c810c82b2c7722afbeb7faca9cc0
    • 1c0af3c046e3b97ff9af811feeba899854d7a81f
    • 35c79043b8781d089146730acee4a7277de92f98
    • 1d5a7af8f428286273e0169bc9fa43e1fdae80cc
    • a35dfe8a340c3d86638ee8c785460ea7a1c6236b

[JeltevanBoheemen]

Subj is done.