Merge remote branch 'origin/release' into develop
Bumping to next version (1.2.9)
Adding new participant.other_name column

An additional column has been added to the participant table in order
to explicitely store participant's nicknames or specific notes about
their first or last name.
Merge remote branch 'origin/release' into develop
Adding "multi-participant" functionality to the service-release_participant mechanism

This is being done so that users can upload a file with UIDs created
by the participant report.
Merge remote branch 'origin/release' into develop