Deployed PIFR 6.x-2.9 and Project Dependency 6.x-1.0-beta2

Significant changes in the 6.x-2.9 of PIFR, rolling in lots of things (along with the problematic 6.x-2.8 rollout).

Project_dependency 6.x-1.0-beta2 adds just one patch, which makes internal dependencies get followed. It should change very little.