Cherry-pick deterministic-indicesSyncer
@markus.blatt: I've cherry-picked the commits from !553 (merged) and moved the entry in the CHANGELOG.md to 2.9. Can you have a look and then also merge this one !554 (closed)?
@markus.blatt: I've cherry-picked the commits from !553 (merged) and moved the entry in the CHANGELOG.md to 2.9. Can you have a look and then also merge this one !554 (closed)?