Merge pull request #8181 from rfourquet/docs-promote_type

fix doc typo
allocate a tighter temporary array in MergeSort
Make local :ref: to Performance Tips
Merge pull request #8182 from rickhg12hs/fix-doc-intro-link

Make local :ref: to Performance Tips
Fix typo in dates
Fix scoping in Dates module
Merge pull request #8178 from tanmaykm/readcsv

handling blank lines in readdlm
allow all bits values as type parameters. closes #6081
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:JuliaLang/julia
add builtin sizeof(). fixes #5406
Merge pull request #8157 from rfourquet/sort-tightmerge

allocate a tighter temporary array in MergeSort
Merge pull request #8175 from JuliaLang/jcb/samecaps

 Keep acronyms all upper-case
fix more issues related to 0-size struct entries. part of #8184
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:JuliaLang/julia
Add back llvm powi now that the upstream bug is fixed

Fixes #2741
add `continue` missing from 1b601b4941dfdd0c544ca10b294ec62c12aeaba1
Merge pull request #8166 from eschnett/SuiteSparse

Use LDFLAGS when building SuiteSparse
Use LDFLAGS in OpenBLAS As well!
Excise zlib from deps/Makefile
Remove a few other misc. mentions of Zlib