Merge pull request #967 in CASA/casa from CAS-10951 to master* commit 'd536f49a4de931b840b276c9b1a8c17356fd04f1':
Change control flow in hourangle calculations and enforce another static typing for string addition in qa toolkit call
Enforce static type (str) for hourangle calculations and add some line breaks to improve code format.
Merge pull request #965 in CASA/casa from CAS-12460 to master* commit '86b5c1c61f79b05d38b17564b7554f9ab71b53cb':
Copied the recent update from test_refimager to test_tclean
Inital change: copied test_refimager.py to test_tclean.py and update relevant files
Merge pull request #962 in CASA/casa from CAS-12312 to master* commit '00c1e7a4a12735d541b8565b7d8f5678840610a2':
Update ./gcwrap/tasks/simobserve.xml for CAS-12312
Merge pull request #960 in CASA/casa from bugfix/CAS-12440 to master* commit '3e8d44e6b4f7fe22c08a01ac96f9bdc441b108e4':
CAS-12440 add near() checks to overlap tests
Merge pull request #958 in CASA/casa from CAS-7210 to master* commit '42490953a5f012688d3d679f0954985d8ac8a7d6': (25 commits)
removed briggsabs from parallel testing
removed a compiler warning
Fix tsdimaging tests failure due to expecting 0 area beams
documentation update
make torecord and fromrecord call the base class calls
Fix for moving source with briggs cube weighting
Adding tests for briggsabs and perchannelweightdensity
Fix an em...
Merge pull request #959 in CASA/casa from CAS-12369 to master* commit '08b258ca7bf851842cc2a0ea931a69d17c6fb2e5':
CAS-12369 add deprecation warnings for toASCII()/fromascii()
Merge pull request #956 in CASA/casa from CAS-12447 to master* commit '2c2fe465b01fe1bee1e3c1eb581844b70ef11108':
add log msg with conv function support sizes, CAS-12447
