Hello Ian,
sorry, I was off the radar for a couple days when travelling to Canada
(wifi on the dog-sleds was limited :-) ).
These should be included in the release branch since they are required
to make things compile on the different machines. Sorry I forgot to
lobby for them and apparently they were missed.
Since this is simfactory and only the option lists I think they should
still be able to be applied to the release branches.
Sure, but we cannot change the release tag. So we would need to make a new minor release ET_2016_11_v1 if we wanted to backport these changes to the release.