Sync release

[aashish24]

This is the only commit that's missing in master. @doutriaux1 @dlonie please approve.

[alliepiper]

There's a failure on buildbot, is that related to this? I'm guessing not since it's on a linux box....

The change LGTM, but I'll let someone with a mac test/merge it.

[aashish24]

I am looking into that. One thing I am also working on is to sync repo names in testdata and the branch name as I would like to have dashboard 100% green.

[durack1]

@aashish24 would it be possible to get some mac buildbots included here? Seems like there's a need for them..

[aashish24]

@durack1 I totally agree with you. @doutriaux1 do we have a mac machine for this purpose? I am hoping that we will have the buildbot server out next week.

[doutriaux1]

@aashish24 it's hard at the lab because of firewall issues and http access that needs to be MANUALLY renewed every 6 hours....

[aashish24]

ahh...okay, I will see if I can find something here.

[doutriaux1]

I will talk to Tony and see if we can move a mac to the green (open) network, then we could setup a buildbot. In the past Tony couldn't do it easily, this might have changed.