- Minor code style fixes.

- Patch #17303 by tangent: moved the session settings into /sites/default/settings.php so that subsites can have better control over them. One of the advantages of the site specific settings.php file is that it will never get overwritten during upgrades and having these settings here should prove to be more friendly.

    - permissions menu link updates in a number of modules help
    - anchor link fix in distributed auth help
    - "my account" link fix in user help
    - spelling correction in tracker.module help

- I also changed 'admin/access/perms' to 'admin/access/permissions'.

- Patch #16630 by Aldon: usability improvement: made the lifetime of news items configurable.

- Patch #16246 by Moshe: "Here is a patch for node.module since thta hunk failed last time. Note that I've removed the 'delete' link since it doesn't work and is mostly obsolete with the 'mass delete' feature.  I've also added smart destination andling to the 'url alias delete' feature."

- Patch #16829 by kbahey: separated the forum block for sake of consistency with other blocks.

- Patch #16962 by Neil: "The page module's long help text is a bunch of lies and then it briefly explains it's permissions. IMO it should just be taken out. I can't think of what help should be there."

- Patch #16963 by Neil: the upload's module help text was in bad shape.  Edited it down to what is needed with links that actually work.

  I found another HTML typo, and replaced a <u></u> by <strong></strong> because <u> does not validate as 'XHTML 1.0 stict'.

- Fixed warning in the feed generation (enclosures).

- Patch #16462 by Moshe: book pages slighty disobey the node_access system because they always return a value for book_access('update'). This simple patch causes us to use node_access when the user has a chance of being able to update the current page.

- Mass-delete functionality (with confirmation)
- Flexible filtering for the overview table based on status, type and taxonomy.
- Missing drupal_goto's
- Clean up watchdog messages
- Remove some dead code

- Patch #16246 by Moshe: added mechanism to direct the user back to the referring page after completing a form.
  (Moshe: the patch against node.module failed to apply.)

- Patch #16358 by James: added toolkit to enable better image handling.  The avatar code and the upload module have been updated to take advantage of the new image API.

There are 5 main functions that modules may now utilize to handle images:

* image_get_info() - this function checks a file.  If it exists and is a valid image file, it will return an array containing things like the pixel dimensions of the image, plus the 'type' and common extension.
* image_scale - resizes a given image to fit within a given width / height dimensions, while maintaining aspect ratio (not distorting the image).  This function can be used to generate thumbnails, or ensure a maximum resolution, etc.
* image_resize - similar to image_scale (but will not respect aspect ratio - may well distort the image).
* image_rotate - rotate an image by X degrees
* image_crop - crops an image to a given rectangle (defined as top-left x/y coordinates plus a width & height of the rectangle).

Contribution modules will now be able to rely on these base manipulation functions to offer additional functionality (such as image nodes, photo galleries, advanced image manipulation, etc).