Cherry-pick a bugfix to release/8.0

Fixed FWNX-1273 so S/R code ensures the LinkedFiles folder exist

Change-Id: I0c0b65fb091bb162877e502848f3ccdac87c618e
(cherry picked from commit be6e2bdc8afac1e4e6a3b386f4a6765e488ed992)
Bump version number

Change-Id: I7b5a98de4f6256fb2700ad435965a6e08e85c48f