- Patch #601250 by Dave Reid, VeryMisunderstood: allow anonymous users to use personal contact forms.

- Patch #601016 by Dave Reid: remove contact_site_page() and contact_personal_page() and use the forms directly.

- Patch #597784 by Dave Reid: rename 'administer site-wide contact form' to 'administer contact forms'.

- Patch #118345 by sun | nedjo, pwolanin, webchick: DIE hook_user_form() + hook_user_register() DIE!

#497118 by chx, catch, pwolanin, JoshuaRogers, and Jacob Singh: Remove the function registry. While the hope was that this would result in improved performance for low-end hosts, it comes at the expense of critical development experience problems and less benefit than something like APC. Class registry remains intact to facilitate autoloading.

Of all the patches to accidentally commit without a message. :( Rolling back registry rip. Let's try that again.

- Patch #391412 by JamesAn et al: move contact form, post, and user settings below Site configuration.

- Patch #334283 by Damien Tournoud, andypost, Freso et al: add context to t() to help deal with ambigious strings (and improved the locale APIs a bit). Example: May is both a short month name as a long month name in English, but not necessarily in other languages.

#313213 by maartenvg, Gábor Hojtsy: Add a 'title' attribute for permissions to allow for localization of permission names

- Patch #310212 by justinrandell, catch, et all: killed  in _user hook, as well as two small kittens.

#108979 by ewhipple, catch, and sun: Order permissions consistently, keep node type related permissions together.

  et al.  Can you say 'registry'?  Drupal now maintains an internal registry of
  all functions or classes in the system, allowing it to lazy-load code files as
  needed (reducing the amount of code that must be parsed on each request). The
  list of included files is cached per menu callback for subsequent loading by
  the menu router. This way, a given page request will have all the code it needs
  but little else, minimizing time spent parsing unneeded code.

- Patch #245115 by kkaefer, John Morahan, JohnAlbin et al: after a long discussion we've decided to make the concatenation operator consistent with the other operators.

- Patch #30984 by webchick, keith.smith, kkaefer, Crell et al: provide descriptions for permissions on the permission administration page.

#189785 by dropcube: anonymous users did not have permission to view the personal contact form, so catch them early

#100577 by O Govinda, keith.smith, catch: improve contact module help, more links to where settings are located

#200069 by keith.smith: new standard for 'more information' links in module help texts, as the handbook we referred to before was renamed

#197297 by DanW (as GHOP 17), and keith.smith: clean up lots of help texts, update to drag and drop functionality, drupal.module removal, etc

- Patch #163246 by keith smith, freso, O Govinda, catch, webchick et al: fixed minor spelling issues and fixed spacing issues.

- Patch #136970 by catch and wmostrey: added permission to administer contact forms (usability improvement).