ac93cac93cd0897847ac2accc4f1ab2cee1ea29d92cbe

(cherry picked from commit 89e66dfd)

steadystate value when *_steadystate.m is provided without setting
auxiliary variables
(cherry picked by hand from commit f51a8edf)

(manual cherry-pick from 347ab4d0 and 762f31ba)

(cherry picked from commit ebcc9d8f)

(manually cherry picked from commit b8c6ed2c)

(cherry picked from commit 20600599)

(cherry picked from commit 83e2d470)

(cherry picked from commit 21ceaa5c)

(cherry picked from commit 85d56423)

manual: aesthetic fix - uniformly declare multiple types in option definitions (manual cherry-pick from 663aa73a)

(cherry picked from commit 7c95c82b)

(cherry picked from commit afe800f3)

Improve the way we test for existence of toolboxes (more reliable in the case where the toolbox is installed but not activated)
(cherry picked from commit eabca4c4)

(cherry picked from commit d9ede95f)

(cherry picked from commit 2aa7cf37)

(cherry picked from commit 43e2163b)

  - the block type index

(cherry picked from commit 0c727649)

(cherry picked from commit 6dd8e920)

solution implemented consists of adding one extra observation in the presample
used to compute the prior; as a consequence, the numerical results for all
estimations will be slightly different in future releases (thanks to Marek
Jarociński for spotting this)
(cherry picked from commit ff7792a7)

Allow non-integer values for hp_filter parameter (manually cherry-picked from 1b4dcdd7)

(cherry picked from commit ef26fe00)

(cherry picked from commit 8345de43)

(cherry picked from commit 555c5194)

(cherry picked from commit 77311614)

(cherry picked from commit 044d19c5)

added error for near 0/0 on diagonal of Real Generalized Schur decomposition (info=7) and corrected error in test for singular w1 submatrix, introduced in Sept. 2010.
(cherry picked from commit 3c0ebb4c)

Adapted from master branch commit

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Theoretical moments: handle nicely the case where all variables are either constant or non stationary
(cherry picked from commit df0edeec)

(cherry picked from commit c5ecad8c)

(cherry picked from commit 2914739b)

(cherry picked from commit bc8f960b)

(cherry picked from commit 19a994af)

(cherry picked from commit 79284070)