Generalize container matrix to AbstractMatrix for most factorization types
Separate test cholfact(x::Number) for cherrypicking, as discussed in #9326
Changes behaviour of round to use default rounding mode (#8750).
Changed container matrix of ...Q types to AbstractMatrix as well
add NEWS item
Update to SuiteSparse 4.4.1.
let appveyor know about the version bump

revert this commit and d8cf6feee7bb5db0e86b2183390c4a5b29911f63 once new nightlies are ready
Make copy!(dest, doffs, src) handle empty src
Speed up copying of abstract arrays and iterables
Forward \eO* escape sequences in REPL prefix mode.

Fixes #9412.
Merge pull request #9414 from blakejohnson/match-eO-escapes

Forward \eO* escape sequences in REPL prefix mode.
Fix FunctionMover for LLVM 3.6

In LLVM 3.6, we may not enter CloneFunctionInto recursively.
Instead, just create the prototypes when we get there and copy the
body over later. This should also work on earlier LLVM versions, so
is enabled there too.
more llvm36 updates (for win64)
fix rand(Float16|Float32) equal to 1

Cf. bug reported by @tkelman in #9301.
As noted by @ivarne, converting a Float64 different from 1 to Float16
or Float32 can produce a value equal to one, which doesn't agree with
the documented API.
So instead of converting, let's produce a Float16/Float32 in [1,2) at
the bit level, and then substract 1 (as was done in the array versions).
As a side effect, this also makes rand(Float16) about twice as fast.
Add mention of join() to the section of the manual about strings

This is one of the very useful functions which can be hard to find,
and very similar to repeat().
Merge pull request #9426 from JuliaLang/nalimilan/join

Add mention of join() to the section of the manual about strings
String docs: start to add crosslinks between manual and stdlib
Update README.md

`libgit2` does this and I think this fixes it without having to re-build everything.

Update README.md
Added warning message when ENV["TERM"]=="dumb". Resolves #9093
Merge pull request #9427 from goretkin/patch-3

Update README.md