Merge tag 'v2.8.0'

2.8.0

 * Expose more loopback middleware for require (Raymond Feng)

 * Scope app middleware to a list of paths (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * Update CONTRIBUTING.md (Alex Voitau)

 * Fix the model name for hasMany/through relation (Raymond Feng)

 * Fixing the model attach (wfgomes)

 * Minor: update jsdoc for PersistedModel.updateAll (Alex Voitau)

 * AccessToken: optional `options` in findForRequest (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * server-app: improve jsdoc comments (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * server-app: middleware API improvements (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * typo of port server (wfgomes)

 * Move middleware sources to `server/middleware` (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * app.middleware: verify serial exec of handlers (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * Simplify `app.defineMiddlewarePhases` (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * Make sure loopback has all properties from express (Raymond Feng)

 * Implement `app.defineMiddlewarePhases` (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * Implement app.middlewareFromConfig (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * middleware/token: store the token in current ctx (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * Fix `loopback.getCurrentContext` (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * Update chai to ^1.10.0 (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * package: fix deps (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * Middleware phases - initial implementation (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * Allows ACLs/settings in model config (Raymond Feng)

 * Remove context middleware per Ritchie (Rand McKinney)

 * Add API doc for context middleware - see #337 (crandmck)

 * Update persisted-model.js (Rand McKinney)

 * rest middleware: clean up context config (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * Move `context` example to a standalone app (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * Enable the context middleware from loopback.rest (Raymond Feng)

 * Add context propagation middleware (Raymond Feng)

 * Changes to JSdoc comments (Rand McKinney)

 * Reorder classes alphabetically in each section (Rand McKinney)

 * common: coding style cleanup (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * Coding style cleanup (Gruntfile, lib) (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * Enable jscs for `lib`, fix style violations (Rob Halff)

 * Add access-context.js to API doc (Rand McKinney)

 * Remove doc for debug function (Rand McKinney)

 * Update registry.js (Rand McKinney)

 * Fix the jsdoc for User.login (Raymond Feng)

 * Deleted instantiation of new Change model. This PR removes the instantiation of a new change model as models return from Change.find are already instances of Change. This solves the duplicate Id issue #649 (Berkeley Martinez)

 * Expose path to the built-in favicon file (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * Add API docs for `loopback.static`. (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * Add test for `remoting.rest.supportedTypes` (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * Revert "rest handler options" (Miroslav Bajtoš)

 * REST handler options. (Guilherme Cirne)

 * The elapsed time in milliseconds can be 0 (less than 1 ms) (Raymond Feng)