back from the dead

This release is the first release after the fork. It aims to factor in critical bugs that were present for a while like issues with HTTPS and requests. This synchronizes the source code with the Debian package and is the first release of the stable 9.3.x branch. New feature development and other non-critical changes happen on the master branch.

This is not yet released on PyPI and on the website, see issues #4 and #5 for this.