I mixed up two separate improvements into one, this change aims to
clarify them based on a suggestion and conversation with @T-X.

Closes #1979
Closes #2062

(cherry picked from commit 582d2d69)

Closes #1979
Closes #2062

None of the other release pages have a "v" before the version number.

Signed-off-by: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>
(cherry picked from commit 5a7ac058)

(cherry picked from commit 4bfcd6ae)

Resolves #1937

(cherry picked from commit 1566324f)

(cherry picked from commit f1f188f8)

respondd address

(cherry picked from commit c612dfba)

(cherry picked from commit 1e66cd90)

Uncovered by sphinx-build:
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docs/releases/v2018.2.1.rst:19: WARNING: Unknown target name: "noibss".
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docs/releases/v2018.2.1.rst:30: WARNING: Unknown target name: "noibss".
docs/releases/v2018.2.1.rst:34: WARNING: Unknown target name: "noibss".
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