Merge cherrypicks of [12257241, 12257478, 12257643, 12257707, 12257297, 12257742, 12257668, 12257743, 12257513, 12257278, 12257279, 12257514, 12257644, 12257669, 12257670, 12257671] into rvc-release

Change-Id: I3669363c1b98ac139f341e0bd898cbbff15cb061
tree: a7d55d0a11014ce645570ee33833efb2e96e07a5
  1. core/
  2. services/
  3. tests/