Backport latest bugfixes into the 3.6.x LTS branch

[michaeljota]

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Issue description

Current behavior:

There a couple of bug fixes that apply to the 3.6.x branch too, and since it still is in LTS, I think those should be backported. I would be specially interested in #1809.

Expected behavior:

As a LTS branch, 3.6.x should have bug fixes backported that make sense.

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[michaeljota]

I'll close this.