iedit, colors, whitespaces, aggressive-indent, tweaks and fixes

• Move iedit layer to spacemacs layer, see documentation
• New contrib layer colors
• New toggle SPC t SPC to toggle visibility of whitespaces (thanks to Khaki)
• Add aggressive-indent-mode, disabled by default, can be toggled with SPC t i
• Fix fancify symbols initialization in clojure layer (thanks to vijaykiran)
• Fix and enable helm-semantic-or-imenu on SPC s l for javascript layer (thanks to danielwuz)
• Remove use-package sub-module. It is now a bootstrap package. Spacemacs will now correctly get the latest version of use-package available in MELPA.
• Fix n and N bindings in all evilified buffers.
• Fix git-guttter lazy loading and initialization
• Fix perforce layer which was completely broken

html layer, clojure and company improvements, fixes and tweaks

• New contrib layer html (thanks to danielwuz)
• Improvements to the clojure layer: fancy symbols and align let. (thanks to nwolfe)
• Improvements to company-mode layer: support for include files (thanks to tux4life)
• New variable dotspacemacs-maximized-at-startup to maximize the window instead of making it fullscreen at startup. To make it fullscreen use the dotspacemacs-fullscreen-at-startup instead (thanks to bjarkevad)
• Fix support for fullscreen at startup for WIndows (thanks to ralesi)
• Add the global-mode-string variable to the powerline. This is a very important variable used by many modes (thanks to chrisbarrett)
• Add a section in documentation about the motivation behind the choice to use s instead of S for evil-surround (thanks to Tritlo for pointing out this major difference)
• Add missing link to source code pro in documentation (thanks to ralesi)

git and github layers merge, github-browse-file, fixes and tweaks

• git and github layers have been merged into one git layer. To enable Github support set to t the variable git-enable-github-support in your dotspacemacs/init function.
• New package github-browse-file in git layer. Press SPC g f b to browse the current file in Github (thanks to rphillips)
• New mnemonic key bindings for windows split. SPC w - to split horizontally and SPC w / to split vertically. The old key bindings are still available (thanks to trishume)
• Fix read-only scratch buffer (thanks to herbertjones)

Fix Scala layer, Auto-save files location

• Fix Scala layer (typo in packages list symbol) (thanks to chrisbarrett)
• Fix auto-save file location (correctly point to .cache) (thanks to ralesi)

C/C++, Scala, git, Perforce layers, package cleaning, fixes and tweaks

• Move C/C++ and CMake packages/configuration to c-c++ layer
• Move Scala, ENSIME and sbt-mode packages to scala layer
• Move Magit and a bunch of packages to git layer
• Move Perforce p4 package to perforce layer
• Move CoffeeScript package to javascript layer
• Move ghc package to haskell layer
• Move hy package to python layer
• Remove csharp package from spacemacs layer (omnisharp anyone ?)
• Remove puppet-mode and wand packages from spacemacs layer
• Add documentation about font and a FAQ entry about ugly spacemacs banner
• Fix dospacemacs-persistent-server (thanks to quanganhdo)
• Fix C-u to scroll-up

OS X, Powershell/Batch, Zoom, Persistent server, Fancy links, tweaks and fixes

• New contrib layer OS X defining useful common OS X key bindings on ⌘ and ⌥ (thanks to avendael)
• New contrib layer windows-scripts providing modes for editing powershell and batch scripts (those two modes were in spacemacs layer)
• New micro-state to zoom in and out the whole content of a frame, see documentation (thanks to ralesi)
• New variable dotspacemacs-persistent-server which keeps the Emacs server alive when it is closed (this feature is disabled by default), see documentation for more info (thanks to ralesi)
• Very cool new actionable links integrated in spacemacs buffer, those links allow the user to quickly jump to the online documentation, join the gitter chat and more ! (thanks to trishume)

Hotfix for error Symbol's function definition is void: evil-leader/set-key

Fix bug in the bootstrap sequence which prevents Spacemacs from installing correctly (thanks to robertoconnell for the bug report).

Clojure, Autohotkey, Smartparens-strict-mode, tweaks and bug fixes

• New contrib layer Clojure (thanks to vijaykiran)
• New contrib layer Autohotkey (thanks to ralesi)
• Fix smartparens-strict-mode and add a new dotfile variable dotspacemacs-smartparens-strict-mode to enable the strict mode in programming modes. The default is nil to not surprise the beginners.
• Fix initialization bug of company-anaconda in Python layer (thanks to danielwuz)
• Fix some not working key bindings on evil-leader by creating prefix commands before actually initializing the packages and extensions.
• Fix flycheck for Haskell layer.
• New key binding SPC w C to close all the windows except the active one (thanks to avendael)
• Additional org key bindings on SPC m prefix, see documentation
• New key bindings in eshell and shell to browse the history using helm, see documentation

Customizable command key, better ESC and Bug fixes

• New variable dotspacemacs-command-key to customize the ex-command and M-x command key bindings. Default is :.
• Improved ESC in minibuffer, it is now easier to close the minibuffer with the escape key (thanks to avendael)
• Fix initialization: Packages and extensions are now correctly loaded in alphabetical order.
• Fix #223: auto-centering of buffer when buffer-menu is opened (with :buffer or C-x C-b)
• Fix #237: Bug on OS X which prevents Emacs from really deleting files
• Fix #239: goto-next-section and goto-previous-section now works in Magit buffers, respectively on C-n / C-j and C-p / C-k.
• Fix #220: Missing description in guide-key buffer
• Fix typo in python layer: pyenv instead of pyvenv (note the additional v!) (thanks to danielwuz)

Ruby layer, tweaks and fixes

• New contrib layer ruby (thanks to bru)
• Enable semantic in python layer (thanks to danielwuz)
• Add evil key binding z f which recenters the window to match as much as possible the function at point, very handy! (thanks to danielwuz)
• Correctly execute clear and man commands in shell (thanks to avendael)
• New conventions in CONVENTIONS.md: REPLs, Test execution, code navigation and documentation.
• Various tweaks and fixes to layer READMEs