diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5704d5ea85..08aa36d348 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
 *.ravenStatus
 *.so
 *~
+*.inp
+*.fls
+*.fdb_latexmk
 build_out*
 build/
 install/
@@ -55,6 +58,15 @@ dist/
 tests/framework/.coverage
 tests/framework/htmlcov/
 
+# test
+tests/framework/CodeInterfaceTests/PARCS/PARCS-RAVEN-GA/sampleGA-PARCS/
+tests/framework/CodeInterfaceTests/Scale/SCALE_csas/sampleScale/
+tests/framework/CodeInterfaceTests/Simulate/Simulate_RAVEN-GA/sampleGA-Simulate/
+tests/framework/ROM/TimeSeries/ARMA/InterpolatedMaxCycles/
+tests/framework/ROM/TimeSeries/SyntheticHistory/LogARMA/
+tests/framework/ROM/TimeSeries/SyntheticHistory/VARMA/
+tests/framework/ROM/TimeSeries/SyntheticHistory/ZeroFilterDiscontinuous/
+
 # hpc
 node_*[0-9]
 *.[oe][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]
diff --git a/doc/user_manual/raven_user_manual.tex b/doc/user_manual/raven_user_manual.tex
index a16c63826c..045b3c5004 100644
--- a/doc/user_manual/raven_user_manual.tex
+++ b/doc/user_manual/raven_user_manual.tex
@@ -272,13 +272,16 @@
 \\Paul W. Talbot
 \\Mohammad G. Abdo
 \\Dylan J. McDowell
-\\Ramon K. Yoshiura\\
+\\Ramon K. Yoshiura
+\\Junyung Kim\\
 \textbf{\textit{Former Developers:}}
 \\Cristian Rabiti
 \\Daniel P. Maljovec
 \\Sonat Sen
 \\Robert Kinoshita
-\\Jun Chen\\
+\\Jun Chen
+\\Jia Zhou
+\\Daniel Garrett\\
 \textbf{\textit{Contributors:}}
 \\Alessandro Bandini (Post-Processor)
 \\Ivan Rinaldi (documentation)
@@ -286,8 +289,11 @@
 \\James B. Tompkins (new external code interface)
 \\Matteo Donorio (new external code interface)
 \\Fabio Giannetti (new external code interface)
-\\Jia Zhou (conjugate gradient optimizer)
-\\Junyung Kim (Genetic Algorithm)
+\\Alp Tezbasaran (new external code interface)
+\\Anthoney A. Griffith (Bayesian optimization)
+\\Jacob A. Bryan (TSA module)
+\\Haoyu Wang (DMD amd DMDc)
+\\Khang Nguyen (new external code interface)
 }
 
 % There is a "Printed" date on the title page of a SAND report, so
@@ -301,8 +307,8 @@
 \SANDnum{INL/EXT-15-34123}
 \SANDprintDate{\today}
 \SANDauthor{Cristian Rabiti, Andrea Alfonsi, Joshua Cogliati, Diego Mandelli, Congjian Wang, Paul W. Talbot,
-Mohammad G. Abdo, Dylan J. McDowell, Ramon K. Yoshiura, Robert Kinoshita, Sonat Sen, Daniel P. Maljovec}
-\SANDreleaseType{Revision 8}
+Mohammad G. Abdo, Dylan J. McDowell, Ramon K. Yoshiura, Robert Kinoshita, Sonat Sen, Daniel P. Maljovec, Jun Chen, Jia Zhou, Junyung Kim}
+\SANDreleaseType{Revision 9}
 
 % ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- %
 % Include the markings required for your SAND report. The default is "Unlimited
diff --git a/ravenframework/Models/ExternalModel.py b/ravenframework/Models/ExternalModel.py
index 28f6d08d7c..569aefb6e9 100644
--- a/ravenframework/Models/ExternalModel.py
+++ b/ravenframework/Models/ExternalModel.py
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ def localInputAndChecks(self,xmlNode):
       # check if there are variables and, in case, load them
       for child in paramInput.subparts:
         if child.getName() == 'variables':
-          self.raiseAWarning(DeprecationWarning ,'"variables" node inputted but has been deprecated!  Please list variables in the "inputs" and "outputs" nodes instead.  This Warning will result in an error in RAVEN 3.0!')
+          self.raiseAWarning(DeprecationWarning ,'"variables" node inputted but has been deprecated!  Please list variables in the "inputs" and "outputs" nodes instead.')
           self.modelVariableType = dict.fromkeys(child.value)
         elif child.getName() == 'inputs':
           self._setVariableList('input', child.value)