3.0.0
This release brings back 1.6.x into the main development as it's been the actual branch we've been working on. The 2.0.0 version did not receive any updates for 3 years. Therefore we decided to bring 1.6.x up to 3.0.x versioning and move from there with switching the master branch.
There are also some backports from master that were missing in the 1.6.x path: