allow user to check release viability

and some other changes
Merge pull request #697 from ugokanain/dev

allow user to check release viability
removed hard coded db name from patch
Merge pull request #698 from devmem/master

Namefixer updates
added cats to predb
Merge branch 'master' into dev

Conflicts:
	Changelog
merging master to dev
changed patch numbers
changed patch numbers
added changelog back
changed echo output in postprocess doecho and/or debug
replaced && with ; because python scripts exit  and sleeps were not working
added blank line to robot.txt