fixes #3596 - validation error when user with hostgroup subscription creates a new hostgroup

(cherry picked from commit de7cb88710f028bc33ae9257d185abf0b73554d5)

fixes #4159 Thin provisioning for VMware disks in compute profiles can't be saved

(cherry picked from commit 2058a91d5effb143a66f5677d6882cba4a9258ae)

fixes #4307 New VMware VM creation does not respect NIC type selection

(cherry picked from commit 461e6b003bc00d6d62e20d8f1c5e5c860ebdaaba)

fixes #3496 vSphere: add support for selectable SCSI controller

(cherry picked from commit 41ee835f2c872d09cd09af2179ef3bc2327e6b02)

fixes #3980 - Compute profiles not rendering Openstack attributes correctly

(cherry picked from commit 88daf556e39ad9c0d3bdebbe9f88ce5ff49010f6)

fixes #3519 - taxonomies include authorization module

(cherry picked from commit 14fdd9046dd3b85979bf95b4d0019e00051e35c2)

fixes #4298 - ldap auth should accept parens in firstname or surname

(cherry picked from commit 3065cbc2df440c77e20abeed9fa525221fdcb12f)

fixes #4304 - corrected strange search for host_id parameter

(cherry picked from commit e72b0a7748d9eeec537bfe9b5da202432b243ba2)

fixes #2726 - smart class parameter override fails validation

(cherry picked from commit cfc2bb662f49d8216c2388ab35dd87af295474d0)

fixes #4234 - cannot edit host's puppet parameters

(cherry picked from commit 130f301a508ae31549145e5fa9b176f42dc20995)