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- Added Twig as the default template engine and converted all .tpl.php templates
to .html.twig.

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- Added tour module. Provides highly contextual tips for UI elements.
- Improved entity system.
* Added support for saving and deleting entities through the controller.
* Entities are now classed objects, implementing EntityInterface.

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* Drupal now understands the concept of a "default" revision, tracked
independently from the latest revision, allowing for the creation of
drafts while the current revision stays published.

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* All entity types, not just nodes, now have support for revisions.
- Replaced the core routing system with one built on the Symfony2 framework.
- Configuration:
* Added a centralized file-based configuration system.
* Allows module authors to provide configuration in a standard format.
* Implements functionality to get, set, add and remove configuration.

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* Includes ability to override configuration values with language variants

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and other runtime values.

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- Added the CKEditor WYSIWYG editor. Provides a drag-and-drop configuration UI.

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- Included the HTML5 Shiv library to support HTML5 elements in IE 8 and below.

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- Included the following Symfony2 components:
* ClassLoader - PSR-0-compatible autoload routines.
* DependencyInjection - Flexible dependency injection container.
* EventDispatcher - Object-oriented lightweight event handling system.

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* HttpFoundation - Abstraction objects for HTTP requests and responses.
* HttpKernel - Core system for managing incoming HTTP request and responses.
* Process - Allows for executing commands in a sub-process.
* Routing - Framework for mapping incoming requests to controller
information.
* Yaml - Parser for YAML files.
- Included the Assetic asset management framework for PHP.
- Included Backbone.js and Underscore.js JavaScript frameworks.
- Support added for making HTTP requests through a proxy server.
- Removed modules from core.
* The following modules have been removed from core, because contributed
modules with similar functionality are available:
* Blog

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* Dashboard
* OpenID

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* PHP Filter

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* Poll

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* Trigger

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- Removed the Overlay module from core.

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- Removed the Garland theme from core.
- Removed the Statistics module's accesslog functionality and reports from core.
- Removed backwards-compatibility with 'magic_quotes_gpc'/'magic_quotes_runtime'
PHP configuration settings. Both are required to be disabled.

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- Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID):
* Support for generating and validating UUIDs.
- JavaScript changes:

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* Updated to jQuery 2.0.3
* Updated to jQuery UI 1.10.2

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* Removed jquery.bbq
- Tremendously improved language support all around.
* Great language improvements for users:
* Improved language selection with user preference detection in the
installer.
* Moved base language support to Language module.
* Greatly simplified the interface for setting up languages.
* Improved browser language detection considerably.
* Language domain and path prefix configuraton simplified and centralized;
path prefix detection is now default.
* Added HTML 5 language markup; language information added in markup in
several more places.

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* Made it possible to assign external language codes to local languages.

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* Introduced the possibility of an administration-specific language
preference for users.
* Simplified and added new features in interface translation:
* Made interface translation directly accessible from language list.
* Centralized interface translation import to one directory.
* Drupal can now be translated to English and English can be deleted.

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* Much improved built-in translation interface.

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* Added support for singular/plural discovery and translation.

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* Customized translations are tracked so your modifications can
be identified and protected from translation update overwrites.
* All Gettext files are now imported in chunks, better for low resource
environments.
* Improved content language support:

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* Made it possible to assign language to taxonomy terms, vocabularies,
menu items, and files.
* Added a field translation based content translation module that applies
to all content entities.
* Removed the old node-copy based content translation module.
* Introduced language defaults configuration for each entity type and
subtype.
* Added entity language variance support to search module.

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* Search indexing and query preprocessors now get language information.

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* Unified content translation permission granularity with content editing
permissions.

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* Made the language selector freely orderable in entity forms.
* Better configuration language support
* Added language selectors to most configuration options (views, menus,
etc.)
* Added a configuration translation user interface that works with any
configuration with translatable values (blocks, views, fields, etc).

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* Added language options to block visibility.
* Much improved language APIs for developers:
* Added simple APIs and hooks to save/delete/update languages.

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* New Language class wraps language information, used universally.
* Unified database schemas and APIs to make it easier to spot where
language codes are referenced.
* Made the language negotiation system APIs more consistent for
developers.
* Made it possible for users to have a preferred language separate from
their user entity language.
* The text formatter from t() is now available as format_string().

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* Added support for interface translation contexts in Drupal.t(),
Drupal.formatPlural() as well as routing, tabs, actions, and contextual
links.
* Removed textgroups support from interface translation in favor of
native configuration language support.

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* Added configuration schema system to support generating translation
forms for any configuration.

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* Reworked Gettext PO support to use pluggable read/write handlers.

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* Added language select form element in the Form API.

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- Added E-mail field type to core.
- Added Link field type to core.

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- Added Phone number field type to core.

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- Added local image input filter, to enable secure image posting.

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- Added Views and Views UI module to core.
- Added Entity Reference field type to core.

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- Added Date field type to core.

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- Added a Web Services module package.
* Added a RESTful web services provider module.
* Added a serialization module using the Symfony serialization component.
* Added a Hypertext Application Language (HAL) serialization module.
* Added a HTTP Basic authentication provider module.

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- Database:
* Fully rewritten database layer utilizing PHP 5's PDO abstraction layer.
* Drupal now requires MySQL >= 5.0.15 or PostgreSQL >= 8.3.

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* Added query builders for INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE, and SELECT queries.
* Support for master/slave replication, transactions, multi-insert queries,

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and other features.

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* Added support for the SQLite database engine.

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* Default to InnoDB engine, rather than MyISAM, on MySQL when available.
This offers increased scalability and data integrity.

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- Security:
* Protected cron.php -- cron will only run if the proper key is provided.
* Implemented a pluggable password system and much stronger password hashes
that are compatible with the Portable PHP password hashing framework.
* Rate limited login attempts to prevent brute-force password guessing, and
improved the flood control API to allow variable time windows and
identifiers for limiting user access to resources.
* Transformed the "Update status" module into the "Update manager" which
can securely install or update modules and themes via a web interface.

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- Usability:
* Added contextual links (a.k.a. local tasks) to page elements, such as
blocks, nodes, or comments, which allows to perform the most common tasks
with a single click only.

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* Improved installer requirements check.

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* Improved support for integration of WYSIWYG editors.

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* Implemented drag-and-drop positioning for input format listings.

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* Implemented drag-and-drop positioning for language listing.

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* Implemented drag-and-drop positioning for poll options.

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* Provided descriptions and human-readable names for user permissions.
* Removed comment controls for users.

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* Removed display order settings for comment module. Comment display
order can now be customized using the Views module.

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* Removed the 'related terms' feature from taxonomy module since this can
now be achieved with Field API.

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* Added additional features to the default installation profile, and
implemented a "slimmed down" profile designed for developers.

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* Added a built-in, automated cron run feature, which is triggered by site
visitors.
* Added an administrator role which is assigned all permissions for
installed modules automatically.
* Image toolkits are now provided by modules (rather than requiring a
manual file copy to the includes directory).

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* Added an edit tab to taxonomy term pages.

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* Redesigned password strength validator.

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* Redesigned the add content type screen.
* Highlight duplicate URL aliases.

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* Renamed "input formats" to "text formats".
* Moved text format permissions to the main permissions page.

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* Added configurable ability for users to cancel their own accounts.
* Added "vertical tabs", a reusable interface component that features
automatic summaries and increases usability.

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* Replaced fieldsets on node edit and add pages with vertical tabs.
- Performance:
* Improved performance on uncached page views by loading multiple core
objects in a single database query.
* Improved performance for logged-in users by reducing queries for path
alias lookups.

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* Improved support for HTTP proxies (including reverse proxies), allowing
anonymous page views to be served entirely from the proxy.

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- Documentation:
* Hook API documentation now included in Drupal core.

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- News aggregator:
* Added OPML import functionality for RSS feeds.
* Optionally, RSS feeds may be configured to not automatically generate feed blocks.

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- Search:
* Added support for language-aware searches.

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- Aggregator:
* Introduced architecture that allows pluggable parsers and processors for

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syndicating RSS and Atom feeds.

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* Added options to suspend updating specific feeds and never discard feeds
- Testing:
* Added test framework and tests.

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- Improved time zone support:
* Drupal now uses PHP's time zone database when rendering dates in local
time. Site-wide and user-configured time zone offsets have been converted
to time zone names, e.g. Africa/Abidjan.
* In some cases the upgrade and install scripts do not choose the preferred
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corrected at admin/config/regional/settings.

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* If your site is being upgraded from Drupal 6 and you do not have the
contributed date or event modules installed, user time zone settings will
fallback to the system time zone and will have to be reconfigured by each user.

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* User-configured time zones now serve as the default time zone for PHP
date/time functions.
- Filter system:

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* Revamped the filter API and text format storage.
* Added support for default text formats to be assigned on a per-role basis.
* Refactored the HTML corrector to take advantage of PHP 5 features.
- User system:
* Added clean API functions for creating, loading, updating, and deleting
user roles and permissions.
* Refactored the "access rules" component of user module: The user module
now provides a simple interface for blocking single IP addresses. The
previous functionality in the user module for restricting certain e-mail
addresses and usernames is now available as a contributed module. Further,
IP address range blocking is no longer supported and should be implemented
at the operating system level.
* Removed per-user themes: Contributed modules with similar functionality
are available.

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- OpenID:
* Added support for Gmail and Google Apps for Domain identifiers. Users can
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by Google.
* Made the OpenID module more pluggable.

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- Added code registry:
* Using the registry, modules declare their includable files via their .info file,
allowing Drupal to lazy-load classes and interfaces as needed.

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- Theme system:

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* Removed the Bluemarine, Chameleon and Pushbutton themes. These themes live
on as contributed themes (http://drupal.org/project/bluemarine,
http://drupal.org/project/chameleon and http://drupal.org/project/pushbutton).
* Added Stark theme to make analyzing Drupal's default HTML and CSS easier.

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* Added Seven as the default administration theme.

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* Variable preprocessing of theme hooks prior to template rendering now goes
through two phases: a 'preprocess' phase and a new 'process' phase. See
http://api.drupal.org/api/function/theme/7 for details.
* Theme hooks implemented as functions (rather than as templates) can now
also have preprocess (and process) functions. See
http://api.drupal.org/api/function/theme/7 for details.

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* Added Bartik as the default theme.
- File handling:
* Files are now first class Drupal objects with file_load(), file_save(),
and file_validate() functions and corresponding hooks.
* The file_move(), file_copy() and file_delete() functions now operate on
file objects and invoke file hooks so that modules are notified and can
respond to changes.
* For the occasions when only basic file manipulation are needed--such as
uploading a site logo--that don't require the overhead of databases and
hooks, the current unmanaged copy, move and delete operations have been
preserved but renamed to file_unmanaged_*().

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* Rewrote file handling to use PHP stream wrappers to enable support for

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both public and private files and to support pluggable storage mechanisms
and access to remote resources (e.g. S3 storage or Flickr photos).

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* The mime_extension_mapping variable has been removed. Modules that need to
alter the default MIME type extension mappings should implement
hook_file_mimetype_mapping_alter().
* Added the hook_file_url_alter() hook, which makes it possible to serve
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* Added a field specifically for uploading files, previously provided by

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the contributed module FileField.
- Image handling:
* Improved image handling, including better support for add-on image
libraries.
* Added API and interface for creating advanced image thumbnails.
* Inclusion of additional effects such as rotate and desaturate.

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* Added a field specifically for uploading images, previously provided by

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the contributed module ImageField.
- Added aliased multi-site support:
* Added support for mapping domain names to sites directories.
- Added RDF support:
* Modules can declare RDF namespaces which are serialized in the <html> tag
for RDFa support.
* Modules can specify how their data structure maps to RDF.
* Added support for RDFa export of nodes, comments, terms, users, etc. and
their fields.
- Search engine optimization and web linking:
* Added a rel="canonical" link on node and comment pages to prevent
duplicate content indexing by search engines.
* Added a default rel="shortlink" link on node and comment pages that
advertises a short link as an alternative URL to third-party services.
* Meta information is now alterable by all modules before rendering.
- Field API:

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* Custom data fields may be attached to nodes, users, comments and taxonomy
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* Node bodies and teasers are now Field API fields instead of
being a hard-coded property of node objects.
* In addition, any other object type may register with Field API
and allow custom data fields to be attached to itself.
* Provides most of the features of the former Content Construction
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* Taxonomy terms are now Field API fields that can be added to any fieldable
object.

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- Installer:
* Refactored the installer into an API that allows Drupal to be installed
via a command line script.

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- Page organization

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* Made the help text area a full featured region with blocks.

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* Site mission is replaced with the highlighted content block region and
separate RSS feed description settings.

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* The footer message setting was removed in favor of custom blocks.

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* Made the main page content a block which can be moved and ordered
with other blocks in the same region.

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* Blocks can now return structured arrays for later rendering just

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like page callbacks.

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- Translation system
* The translation system now supports message context (msgctxt).
* Added support for translatable fields to Field API.

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- JavaScript changes
* Upgraded the core JavaScript library to jQuery version 1.4.4.

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* Upgraded the jQuery Forms library to 2.52.
* Added jQuery UI 1.8.7, which allows improvements to Drupal's user

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experience.
- Better module version support

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* Modules now can specify which version of another module they depend on.
- Removed modules from core
* The following modules have been removed from core, because contributed
modules with similar functionality are available:
* Blog API module
* Ping module
* Throttle module
- Improved node access control system.
* All modules may now influence the access to a node at runtime, not just
the module that defined a node.
* Users may now be allowed to bypass node access restrictions without giving
them complete access to the site.
* Access control affects both published and unpublished nodes.
* Numerous other improvements to the node access system.

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- Actions system
* Simplified definitions of actions and triggers.
* Removed dependency on the combination of hooks and operations. Triggers
now directly map to module hooks.
- Task handling
* Added a queue API to process many or long-running tasks.
* Added queue API support to cron API.
* Added a locking framework to coordinate long-running operations across
requests.
Drupal 6.0, 2008-02-13
- New, faster and better menu system.

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- New watchdog as a hook functionality.

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* New hook_watchdog that can be implemented by any module to route log
messages to various destinations.
* Expands the severity levels from 3 (Error, Warning, Notice) to the 8
levels defined in RFC 3164.
* The watchdog module is now called dblog, and is optional, but enabled by

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default in the default installation profile.

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* Extended the database log module so log messages can be filtered.
* Added syslog module: useful for monitoring large Drupal installations.

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- Added optional e-mail notifications when users are approved, blocked, or

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deleted.
- Drupal works with error reporting set to E_ALL.

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- Added scripts/drupal.sh to execute Drupal code from the command line. Useful
to use Drupal as a framework to build command-line tools.
- Made signature support optional and made it possible to theme signatures.

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- Made it possible to filter the URL aliases on the URL alias administration
screen.

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- Language system improvements:
* Language detection based on parts of the URL.
* Browser based language detection.
* Made it possible to specify a node's language.

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* Support for translating posts on the site to different languages.

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* Language dependent path aliases.

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* Automatically import translations when adding a new language.

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* JavaScript interface translation.
* Automatically import a module's translation upon enabling that module.
- Moved "PHP input filter" to a standalone module so it can be deleted for

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security reasons.

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- Usability:
* Improved handling of teasers in posts.
* Added sticky table headers.
* Check for clean URL support automatically with JavaScript.

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* Removed default/settings.php. Instead the installer will create it from
default.settings.php.
* Made it possible to configure your own date formats.
* Remember anonymous comment posters.

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* Only allow modules and themes to be enabled that have explicitly been
ported to the correct core API version.

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* Can now specify the minimum PHP version required for a module within the
.info file.
* Drupal core no longer requires CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES or LOCK TABLES
database rights.

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* Dynamically check password strength and confirmation.
* Refactored poll administration.

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* Implemented drag-and-drop positioning for blocks, menu items, taxonomy

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vocabularies and terms, forums, profile fields, and input format filters.

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- Theme system:

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* Added .info files to themes and made it easier to specify regions and
features.
* Added theme registry: modules can directly provide .tpl.php files for
their themes without having to create theme_ functions.

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* Used the Garland theme for the installation and maintenance pages.
* Added theme preprocess functions for themes that are templates.

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* Added support for themeable functions in JavaScript.
- Refactored update.php to a generic batch API to be able to run time-consuming

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operations in multiple subsequent HTTP requests.

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- Installer:
* Themed the installer with the Garland theme.
* Added form to provide initial site information during installation.
* Added ability to provide extra installation steps programmatically.

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* Made it possible to import interface translations during installation.
- Added the HTML corrector filter:
* Fixes faulty and chopped off HTML in postings.
* Tags are now automatically closed at the end of the teaser.

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- Performance:
* Made it easier to conditionally load .include files and split up many core

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modules.

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* Added a JavaScript aggregator.

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* Added block-level caching, improving performance for both authenticated
and anonymous users.
* Made Drupal work correctly when running behind a reverse proxy like
Squid or Pound.
- File handling improvements:
* Entries in the files table are now keyed to a user instead of a node.
* Added reusable validation functions to check for uploaded file sizes,

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extensions, and image resolution.
* Added ability to create and remove temporary files during a cron job.

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- Forum improvements:
* Any node type may now be posted in a forum.
- Taxonomy improvements:

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* Descriptions for terms are now shown on taxonomy/term pages as well
as RSS feeds.
* Added versioning support to categories by associating them with node
revisions.
- Added support for OpenID.

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- Added support for triggering configurable actions.
- Added the Update status module to automatically check for available updates
and warn sites if they are missing security updates or newer versions.

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Sites deploying from CVS should use http://drupal.org/project/cvs_deploy.
Advanced settings provided by http://drupal.org/project/update_advanced.
- Upgraded the core JavaScript library to jQuery version 1.2.3.

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- Added a new Schema API, which provides built-in support for core and
contributed modules to work with databases other than MySQL.

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- Removed drupal.module. The functionality lives on as the Site network
contributed module (http://drupal.org/project/site_network).

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- Removed old system updates. Updates from Drupal versions prior to 5.x will
require upgrading to 5.x before upgrading to 6.x.
Drupal 5.7, 2008-01-28
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- fixed the input format configuration page.
- fixed a variety of small bugs.
Drupal 5.6, 2008-01-10
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- fixed a variety of small bugs.
- fixed a security issue (Cross site request forgery), see SA-2008-005
- fixed a security issue (Cross site scripting, UTF8), see SA-2008-006
- fixed a security issue (Cross site scripting, register_globals), see SA-2008-007
Drupal 5.5, 2007-12-06
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- fixed missing missing brackets in a query in the user module.
- fixed taxonomy feed bug introduced by SA-2007-031
Drupal 5.4, 2007-12-05
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- fixed a variety of small bugs.
- fixed a security issue (SQL injection), see SA-2007-031
Drupal 5.3, 2007-10-17
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- fixed a variety of small bugs.
- fixed a security issue (HTTP response splitting), see SA-2007-024
- fixed a security issue (Arbitrary code execution via installer), see SA-2007-025
- fixed a security issue (Cross site scripting via uploads), see SA-2007-026
- fixed a security issue (User deletion cross site request forgery), see SA-2007-029
- fixed a security issue (API handling of unpublished comment), see SA-2007-030
Drupal 5.2, 2007-07-26
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- changed hook_link() $teaser argument to match documentation.
- fixed a variety of small bugs.
- fixed a security issue (cross-site request forgery), see SA-2007-017
- fixed a security issue (cross-site scripting), see SA-2007-018
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- fixed security issue (code execution), see SA-2007-005
- fixed a variety of small bugs.
- Completely retooled the administration page
* /Admin now contains an administration page which may be themed
* Reorganised administration menu items by task and by module
* Added a status report page with detailed PHP/MySQL/Drupal information
- Added web-based installer which can:
* Check installation and run-time requirements
* Automatically generate the database configuration file

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* Import the database structure with automatic table prefixing
* Be localized
- Added new default Garland theme
- Added color module to change some themes' color schemes
- Included the jQuery JavaScript library 1.0.4 and converted all core JavaScript to use it
- Introduced the ability to alter mail sent from system
- Module system:
* Added .info files for module meta-data
* Added support for module dependencies
* Improved module installation screen
* Moved core modules to their own directories
* Added support for module uninstalling
- Added support for different cache backends
- Added support for a generic "sites/all" directory.
- Usability:
* Added support for auto-complete forms (AJAX) to user profiles.
* Made it possible to instantly assign roles to newly created user accounts.
* Improved configurability of the contact forms.
* Reorganized the settings pages.
* Made it easy to investigate popular search terms.
* Added a 'select all' checkbox and a range select feature to administration tables.
* Simplified the 'break' tag to split teasers from body.
* Use proper capitalization for titles, menu items and operations.
- Integrated urlfilter.module into filter.module
- Block system:
* Extended the block visibility settings with a role specific setting.
* Made it possible to customize all block titles.
- Poll module:
* Optionally allow people to inspect all votes.
* Optionally allow people to cancel their vote.
- Distributed authentication:
* Added default server option.
- Added default robots.txt to control crawlers.
- Database API:
* Added db_table_exists().
- Blogapi module:
* 'Blogapi new' and 'blogapi edit' nodeapi operations.
- User module:
* Added hook_profile_alter().
* E-mail verification is made optional.
* Added mass editing and filtering on admin/user/user.
- PHP Template engine:
* Add the ability to look for a series of suggested templates.
* Look for page templates based upon the path.
* Look for block templates based upon the region, module, and delta.
- Content system:
* Made it easier for node access modules to work well with each other.
* Added configurable content types.
* Changed node rendering to work with structured arrays.
- Performance:
* Improved session handling: reduces database overhead.
* Improved access checking: reduces database overhead.
* Made it possible to do memcached based session management.
* Omit sidebars when serving a '404 - Page not found': saves CPU cycles and bandwidth.
* Added an 'aggressive' caching policy.
* Added a CSS aggregator and compressor (up to 40% faster page loads).
- Removed the archive module.
- Upgrade system:
* Created space for update branches.

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- Form API:
* Made it possible to programmatically submit forms.
* Improved api for multistep forms.
- Theme system:
* Split up and removed drupal.css.
* Added nested lists generation.
* Added a self-clearing block class.
Drupal 4.7.11, 2008-01-10
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- fixed a security issue (Cross site request forgery), see SA-2008-005
- fixed a security issue (Cross site scripting, UTF8), see SA-2008-006
- fixed a security issue (Cross site scripting, register_globals), see SA-2008-007
Drupal 4.7.10, 2007-12-06
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- fixed taxonomy feed bug introduced by SA-2007-031
Drupal 4.7.9, 2007-12-05
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- fixed a security issue (SQL injection), see SA-2007-031
Drupal 4.7.8, 2007-10-17
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- fixed a security issue (HTTP response splitting), see SA-2007-024
- fixed a security issue (Cross site scripting via uploads), see SA-2007-026
- fixed a security issue (API handling of unpublished comment), see SA-2007-030
Drupal 4.7.7, 2007-07-26
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- fixed security issue (XSS), see SA-2007-018
Drupal 4.7.6, 2007-01-29
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- fixed security issue (code execution), see SA-2007-005
Drupal 4.7.5, 2007-01-05
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- Fixed security issue (XSS), see SA-2007-001
- Fixed security issue (DoS), see SA-2007-002
Drupal 4.7.4, 2006-10-18
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- Fixed security issue (XSS), see SA-2006-024
- Fixed security issue (CSRF), see SA-2006-025
- Fixed security issue (Form action attribute injection), see SA-2006-026
Drupal 4.7.3, 2006-08-02
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- Fixed security issue (XSS), see SA-2006-011
Drupal 4.7.2, 2006-06-01
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- Fixed critical upload issue, see SA-2006-007
- Fixed taxonomy XSS issue, see SA-2006-008
- Fixed a variety of small bugs.
Drupal 4.7.1, 2006-05-24
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- Fixed critical SQL issue, see SA-2006-005
- Fixed a serious upgrade related bug.
- Fixed a variety of small bugs.
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- Added free tagging support.
- Added a site-wide contact form.
- Theme system:
* Added the PHPTemplate theme engine and removed the Xtemplate engine.
* Converted the bluemarine theme from XTemplate to PHPTemplate.
* Converted the pushbutton theme from XTemplate to PHPTemplate.
- Usability:
* Reworked the 'request new password' functionality.
* Reworked the node and comment edit forms.
* Made it easy to add nodes to the navigation menu.
* Added site 'offline for maintenance' feature.
* Added support for auto-complete forms (AJAX).
* Added support for collapsible page sections (JS).
* Added support for resizable text fields (JS).
* Improved file upload functionality (AJAX).
* Reorganized some settings pages.
* Added friendly database error screens.
* Improved styling of update.php.
- Refactored the forms API.
* Made it possible to alter, extend or theme forms.
- Comment system:
* Added support for "mass comment operations" to ease repetitive tasks.
* Comment moderation has been removed.
- Node system:
* Reworked the revision functionality.
* Removed the bookmarklet code. Third-party modules can now handle
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- Upgrade system:
* Allows contributed modules to plug into the upgrade system.
- Profiles:
* Added a block to display author information along with posts.
* Added support for private profile fields.
- Statistics module:
* Added the ability to track page generation times.
* Made it possible to block certain IPs/hostnames.
- Block system:
* Added support for theme-specific block regions.
- Syndication:
* Made the aggregator module parse Atom feeds.
* Made the aggregator generate RSS feeds.
* Added RSS feed settings.
* Replaced the XML-RPC library by a better one.
- Performance:
* Added 'loose caching' option for high-traffic sites.
* Improved performance of path aliasing.
* Added the ability to track page generation times.
- Internationalization:
* Improved Unicode string handling API.
* Added support for PHP's multibyte string module.
- Added support for PHP5's 'mysqli' extension.
- Search module:
* Made indexer smarter and more robust.
* Added advanced search operators (e.g. phrase, node type, ...).
* Added customizable result ranking.

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- PostgreSQL support:
* Removed dependency on PL/pgSQL procedural language.
- Menu system:
* Added support for external URLs.
- Queue module:
* Removed from core.
* Added support for a tolerant Base URL.
* Output URIs relative to the root, without a base tag.
Drupal 4.6.11, 2007-01-05
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- Fixed security issue (XSS), see SA-2007-001
- Fixed security issue (DoS), see SA-2007-002
Drupal 4.6.10, 2006-10-18
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- Fixed security issue (XSS), see SA-2006-024
- Fixed security issue (CSRF), see SA-2006-025
- Fixed security issue (Form action attribute injection), see SA-2006-026
Drupal 4.6.9, 2006-08-02
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- Fixed security issue (XSS), see SA-2006-011
Drupal 4.6.8, 2006-06-01
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- Fixed critical upload issue, see SA-2006-007
- Fixed taxonomy XSS issue, see SA-2006-008
Drupal 4.6.7, 2006-05-24
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- Fixed critical SQL issue, see SA-2006-005
Drupal 4.6.6, 2006-03-13
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- Fixed bugs, including 4 security vulnerabilities.
Drupal 4.6.5, 2005-12-12
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- Fixed bugs: no critical bugs were identified.
- Fixed bugs, including 3 security vulnerabilities.
Drupal 4.6.3, 2005-08-15
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- Fixed bugs, including a critical "arbitrary PHP code execution" bug.
Drupal 4.6.2, 2005-06-29
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- Fixed bugs, including two critical "arbitrary PHP code execution" bugs.
- Fixed bugs, including a critical input validation bug.
Drupal 4.6.0, 2005-04-15
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- Search:
* Added UTF-8 support to make it work with all languages.
* Improved search indexing algorithm.
* Improved search output.
* Impose a throttle on indexing of large sites.
* Added search block.
- Syndication:
* Made the ping module ping pingomatic.com which, in turn, will ping all the major ping services.
* Made Drupal generate RSS 2.0 feeds.
* Made RSS feeds extensible.
* Added categories to RSS feeds.
* Added enclosures to RSS feeds.
- Flood control mechanism:
* Added a mechanism to throttle certain operations.
- Usability:
* Refactored the block configuration pages.
* Refactored the statistics pages.
* Refactored the watchdog pages.
* Refactored the throttle module configuration.
* Refactored the access rules page.
* Refactored the content administration page.
* Introduced forum configuration pages.
* Added a 'add child page' link to book pages.
- Contact module:
* Added a simple contact module that allows users to contact each other using e-mail.
- Multi-site configuration:
* Made it possible to run multiple sites from a single code base.
- Added an image API: enables better image handling.
- Block system:
* Extended the block visibility settings.
- Theme system:
* Added new theme functions.
- Database backend:
* The PEAR database backend is no longer supported.
- Performance:
* Improved performance of the forum topics block.
* Improved performance of the tracker module.
* Improved performance of the node pages.
- Documentation:
* Improved and extended PHPDoc/Doxygen comments.
Drupal 4.5.8, 2006-03-13
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- Fixed bugs, including 3 security vulnerabilities.
Drupal 4.5.7, 2005-12-12
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- Fixed bugs: no critical bugs were identified.
- Fixed bugs, including 3 security vulnerabilities.
Drupal 4.5.5, 2005-08-15
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- Fixed bugs, including a critical "arbitrary PHP code execution" bug.
Drupal 4.5.4, 2005-06-29
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- Fixed bugs, including two critical "arbitrary PHP code execution" bugs.
Drupal 4.5.3, 2005-06-01
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- Fixed bugs, including a critical input validation bug.
Drupal 4.5.2, 2005-01-15
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- Fixed bugs: a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been fixed.
Drupal 4.5.1, 2004-12-01
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- Fixed bugs: no critical bugs were identified.
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- Navigation:
* Made it possible to add, delete, rename and move menu items.
* Introduced tabs and subtabs for local tasks.
* Reorganized the navigation menus.
- User management:
* Added support for multiple roles per user.
* Made it possible to add custom profile fields.
* Made it possible to browse user profiles by field.
- Node system:
* Added support for node-level permissions.
- Comment module:
* Made it possible to leave contact information without having to register.
- Upload module:
* Added support for uploading documents (includes images).
- Forum module:
* Added support for sticky forum topics.
* Made it possible to track forum topics.
- Syndication:
* Added support for RSS ping-notifications of http://technorati.com/.
* Refactored the categorization of syndicated news items.
* Added an URL alias for 'rss.xml'.
* Improved date parsing.
- Database backend:
* Added support for multiple database connections.
* The PostgreSQL backend does no longer require PEAR.
- Theme system:
* Changed all GIFs to PNGs.
* Reorganised the handling of themes, template engines, templates and styles.
* Unified and extended the available theme settings.
* Added theme screenshots.
- Blocks:
* Added 'recent comments' block.
* Added 'categories' block.
- Blogger API:
* Added support for auto-discovery of blogger API via RSD.
- Performance:
* Added support for sending gzip compressed pages.
* Improved performance of the forum module.
- Accessibility:
* Improved the accessibility of the archive module's calendar.
* Improved form handling and error reporting.
* Added HTTP redirects to prevent submitting twice when refreshing right after a form submission.
- Refactored 403 (forbidden) handling and added support for custom 403 pages.
- Documentation:
* Added PHPDoc/Doxygen comments.
- Filter system:
* Added support for using multiple input formats on the site
* Expanded the embedded PHP-code feature so it can be used everywhere
* Added support for role-dependent filtering, through input formats
* Managing translations is now completely done through the administration interface
* Added support for importing/exporting gettext .po files
Drupal 4.4.3, 2005-06-01
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- Fixed bugs, including a critical input validation bug.
Drupal 4.4.2, 2004-07-04
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- Fixed bugs: no critical bugs were identified.
- Fixed bugs: no critical bugs were identified.
Drupal 4.4.0, 2004-04-01
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- Added support for the MetaWeblog API and MovableType extensions.
- Added a file API: enables better document management.
- Improved the watchdog and search module to log search keys.
- News aggregator:
* Added support for conditional GET.
* Added OPML feed subscription list.
* Added support for <image>, <pubDate>, <dc:date>, <dcterms:created>, <dcterms:issued> and <dcterms:modified>.
- Comment module:
* Made it possible to disable the "comment viewing controls".
- Performance:
* Improved module loading when serving cached pages.
* Made it possible to automatically disable modules when under heavy load.
* Made it possible to automatically disable blocks when under heavy load.
* Improved performance and memory footprint of the locale module.
- Theme system:
* Made all theme functions start with 'theme_'.
* Made all theme functions return their output.
* Migrated away from using the BaseTheme class.
* Added many new theme functions and refactored existing theme functions.
* Added avatar support to 'Xtemplate'.
* Replaced theme 'UnConeD' by 'Chameleon'.
* Replaced theme 'Marvin' by 'Pushbutton'.
- Usability:
* Added breadcrumb navigation to all pages.
* Made it possible to add context-sensitive help to all pages.
* Replaced drop-down menus by radio buttons where appropriate.
* Removed the 'magic_quotes_gpc = 0' requirement.
* Added a 'book navigation' block.
- Accessibility:
* Made themes degrade gracefully in absence of CSS.
* Grouped form elements using '<fieldset>' and '<legend>' tags.
* Added '<label>' tags to form elements.
- Refactored 404 (file not found) handling and added support for custom 404 pages.
- Improved the filter system to prevent conflicts between filters:
* Made it possible to change the order in which filters are applied.
- Documentation:
* Added PHPDoc/Doxygen comments.
- Fixed bugs: no critical bugs were identified.
Drupal 4.3.1, 2003-12-01
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- Fixed bugs: no critical bugs were identified.
- Added support for configurable URLs.
- Added support for sortable table columns.
- Database backend:
* Added support for selective database table prefixing.
- Performance:
* Optimized many SQL queries for speed by converting left joins to inner joins.
- Comment module:
* Rewrote the comment housekeeping code to be much more efficient and scalable.
* Changed the comment module to use the standard pager.
- User module:
* Added support for multiple sessions per user.
* Added support for anonymous user sessions.
- Forum module:
* Improved the forum views and the themability thereof.
- Book module:
* Improved integration of non-book nodes in the book outline.
- Usability:
* Added support for "mass node operations" to ease repetitive tasks.
* Added support for breadcrumb navigation to several modules' user pages.
* Integrated the administration pages with the normal user pages.
- Added support for clean URLs.
- Added textarea hook and support for onload attributes: enables integration of WYSIWYG editors.
- Rewrote the RSS/RDF parser:
* It will now use PHP's built-in XML parser to parse news feeds.
- Rewrote the administration pages:
* Improved the navigational elements and added breadcrumb navigation.
* Improved the look and feel.
* Added context-sensitive help.
- Database backend:
* Fixed numerous SQL queries to make Drupal ANSI compliant.
* Added MSSQL database scheme.
- Search module:
* Changed the search module to use implicit AND'ing instead of implicit OR'ing.
- Node system:
* Replaced the "post content" permission by more fine-grained permissions.
* Improved content submission:
+ Improved teasers: teasers are now optional, teaser length can be configured, teaser and body are edited in a single textarea, users will no longer be bothered with teasers when the post is too short for one.
+ Added the ability to preview both the short and the full version of your posts.
* Extended the node API which allows for better integration.
* Added default node settings to control the behavior for promotion, moderation and other options.
- Themes:
* Replaced theme "Goofy" by "Xtemplate", a template driven theme.
- Removed the 'register_globals = on' requirement.
- Added better installation instructions.

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- Collaboratively revised and expanded the Drupal documentation.
- Rewrote comment.module:
* Reintroduced comment rating/moderation.
* Added support for comment paging.
* Performance improvements: improved comment caching, faster SQL queries, etc.
- Rewrote block.module:
* Performance improvements: blocks are no longer rendered when not displayed.
- Rewrote forum.module:
* Added a lot of features one can find in stand-alone forum software including but not limited to support for topic paging, added support for icons, rewrote the statistics module, etc.
- Rewrote statistics.module:
* Collects access counts for each node, referrer logs, number of users/guests.
* Export blocks displaying top viewed nodes over last 24 hour period, top viewed nodes over all time, last nodes viewed, how many users/guest online.
- Added throttle.module:
* Auto-throttle congestion control mechanism: Drupal can adapt itself based on the server load.
- Added profile.module:
* Enables to extend the user and registration page.