Merge remote branch 'origin/feature/8625_fix_vision_monitors'
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/feature/8502_refactor_indexing'
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/feature/8280_overlapping_peaks'
Re #8635. Moved LoadAscii::isAscii into FileDescriptor
Re #8635. Moving functions over. Old places are just passthrough.
Merge branch 'feature/8635_kernel_strings' into develop