Cherry-pick "Merge branch 'APEMoveToGit-1.0-20171201' into '1.0'" into master

APE Update, 1.0 branch (2017.12.01.)

See merge request !195 (merged)

(cherry picked from commit 084a70f2)

daa81c97 Switched to picking up APE from GitHub. Since as far as I understand, Sami has been

This is also relevant for ATLINFR-2144.