When a code block included a ```, it would not be rendered correctly.

(cherry picked from commit 60eda14)
ref #14638

(cherry picked from commit ce9d225)
ref #14644

(cherry picked from commit c1005bf)
ref #14301

(cherry picked from commit f95ffcd)

this was causing several package test failures on jb/functions

(cherry picked from commit ec3d632)
ref #14673

(cherry picked from commit a49bef9)
ref #14680

…exception

(cherry picked from commit 9723d52)
ref #14661

All the memory accesses are contiguous, so there's no point in copying
data around.

(cherry picked from commit 1d10910)
ref #14703

(cherry picked from commit bcc6e2f)
ref #14630

fixes #14467 performance regression (and some)

(cherry picked from commit 9dbc3ab)
ref #14667

(cherry picked from commit d0fbd71)
ref #14519

(cherry picked from commit 9d14d39)

(cherry picked from commit 50be996)
ref #14688

Fixes #13200

(cherry picked from commit 59ca442)
ref #14773

to a CHOLMOD.Dense

(cherry picked from commit 2b6c143)
ref #14812

Use SparseMatrix instead of SparseArrays for release-0.4

a new type's supertype was not taken into account while instantiating
the types of its fields

(cherry picked from commit 0dd74d5)
ref #14847

…elease-0.4

(cherry picked from commit a0b5414)

…4 system blas

and link cholmod to lapack, needs dpotrf

(cherry picked from commit 4ec8918)

this should only matter in the rare case where you're building reference
lapack from source against an ILP64 blas

(cherry picked from commit 06c9fb7)

(cherry picked from commit 9cda53d)
ref #14830

(cherry picked from commit 41911d9)
ref #12146

[ci skip]

(cherry picked from commit abdfc24)

(cherry picked from commit 3051685)
ref #14899

Fix the error message and make the dimension output format consistent with how `size(mtx)` does it.
(cherry picked from commit f197e8c)
ref #14907

(cherry picked from commit ec13d73)
ref #14906

(cherry picked from commit e9a16e9)
ref #14906

(backported from 7b1cba7)
ref #14906

(backport of ced6c06)
ref #14864

(cherry picked from commit d86edf7)
ref #14953

Also fixes incorrect return type.

(cherry picked from commit 9de7401)
ref #15022

This change updates the gcc command line to include linking to libstdc++.so.6 (on Linux, may need modification for other OS's), and also adds instructions for setting JULIA_HOME such that the compiled example executes successfully.
(cherry picked from commit aa672af)
ref #15049

(cherry picked from commit f14e734)
ref #15096

(cherry picked from commit 73a572c)
ref #15125

The default Windows build currently skips loading precompiled code from sys.dll

Also remove a duplicate comment in the Windows-specific juliarc.jl

And fix usage of default_sysimg_path

(cherry picked from commit 345d011)
ref #15130

Default to the current sysimg location, rather than next to libjulia
since sys.so and libjulia.so are in the same location for source builds
but not binary installs

(cherry picked from commit b5ccc51)

only makes a difference when separate libraries are being used for blas vs lapack

(cherry picked from commit 3a90d3d)
ref #15160

For ptrarray, always make sure the memory before the offset and
the memory grown at the beginning are zerod.

(cherry picked from commit 99ce885)
ref #15222

(cherry picked from commit 34d1d30)
ref #15288

(cherry picked from commit 786e5b4)
ref #15306

(cherry picked from commit 27faae4)
ref #15318

fix error reporting conditions for BLAS.axpy!, BLAS.copy!,
diag and getindex of Tridiagonal and SymTridiagonal, and umfpack

(cherry picked from commit 4e207ac)
ref #14824

(cherry picked from commit cbd47f2)

(cherry picked from commit 02660d2)
ref #12429

grammar fix in doc/manual/modules.rst

(cherry picked from commit f06868d)

Use versions from the build system rather than win-extras (which downloads
from opensuse)

Remove gcc dlls from downloaded nightly on appveyor

(cherry picked from commit c1e565c)
ref #15285

from juliacache to fix ABI incompatibilities and get a release out
mostly reverts e4bd799

…ks around this issue

(cherry picked from commit af81d6c)
ref #13491

(cherry picked from commit 249c91a)
ref #13698

(cherry picked from commit ae775ea)
ref #15407

[av skip]

This reverts commit fa6802d.

This reverts commit 132cb20.

They are still given to the user in macro arguments,
otherwise LineNumberNode seems to be used consistently.

(cherry picked from commit 3a16b19)
ref #15309

and fix some broken links