#500866 by boombatower, solotandem: Remove t() from assertion messages in SimpleTest, so translators do not get 1000s of bogus strings.

- Patch #652122 by mr.baileys, Berdir, catch: dashboard should insert itself as the default local task on /admin.

#652420 by sun: Fixed Various failures everywhere caught by asserting on watchdog errors found in testing logs.

- Patch by #1577 by chx, boombatower, Bèr Kessels, kkaefer: made SSL support a bit easier by providing two cookies and ... hook_goto_alter.

#517814 by jmstacey, justinrandell, pwolanin, drewish, Jody Lynn, aaron, dopry, and c960657: Converted File API to stream wrappers, for enhanced private/public file handling, and the ability to reference other storage mechanisms such as s3:// and flicker://.

#376129 by boombatower, Damien Tournoud, and chx: Change getInfo() to a static method to reduce memory footprint of SimpleTest.

- Patch #273137 by pwolanin, David_Rothstein, chx, et al: split navigation to user and administration menu. Will require follow-up patches.

- Patch #201122 by c960657, Moshe Weitzman: never write anonymous sessions, unless something has been written to . This is an important performance improvements -- as long as you use modules that use  carefully. It might be good to report some analytics about this in the performance settings page so administrators can see if there is a 'broken' module.

#283246 by Damien Tournoud, Dave Reid, drewish, boombatower: Store original user when prior to running tests.

- Patch #330582 by Darren Oh, c960657 et al: better API for retrieving HTTP headers and working with HTTP headers in tests.

- Patch #280934 by pwolanin, swentel, et al: harden session regeneration.  It took a while, but it comes with tests and extra features now.

- Patch #302763 by Dave Reid, Rob Loach: replace time() by ['REQUEST_TIME'] as per Rasmus' suggestion.  Removed drupal_referrer() for consistency.