- Patch #308834 by c960657: move setting of magic_quotes_runtime out of settings.php because (i) we don't want a user to change it and (ii) it gets executed a bit earlier in the Drupal bootstrap.

- Patch #323474 by Dave Reid and catch: hook_boot() was not invoked on uncached page views if cache mode is aggressive.

- Patch #330674 by catch: we can eliminate one database query because we have the parent node cached anyway.

- Patch #293506 by catch, pwolanin, foripepe: added missing tests for the taxonomy module.  New tests include tests for empty vocabulary overview, deleting a vocabulary, weights, etc. Also refactored some of the existing test to make them more crisp and readable.

- Patch #337660 by dmitrig01: usability improvement - show a preview for the Powered By Drupal block.

- Patch #293370 by maartenvg, swentel, et al: block sorting fails if more than 20 blocks are present.

- Patch #335385 by Dave Reid: fixed maxlength of path alias fields to be consistent with the database.

#11077 by mfb, KarenS, macgirvin, and jjkd: Can you say Daylight Savings Time? I bet you didn't think Drupal ever would! :)

#107051 by Dave Reid, gdevlugt, and vladimir.dolgopolov: Remove duplicate names from Who's Online block.

- Patch #334671 by Steve Dondley: users cannot be assigned to roles or removed from them -- comes with tests.  Yay.

#74645 follow-up by maartenvg: One very important file_scan_directory() call got missed; now HEAD installs again. W00t. ;)

- Patch #74645 by drewish, roychri et al: modify file_scan_directory to use a regex for the nomask (and code clean-up).

- Patch #328781 by chx, Damien Tournoud: made sure that all error messages show a good error message.

- Patch #302054 by dmitrig01: usability improvement - hide machine readable name of node type by default.

- Patch #267883 by MadHarold, boombatower: parse_size() and format_size() do not use the same kilo standard.

- Patch #331570 by recidive: rename block module tables to singular.  Requires you to run update.php.