- Patch #878408 by pwolanin, Damien Tournoud: replace decode_entities() with built-in html_entity_decode().

- Patch #878198 by pwolanin: add back a method to the DB driver interface that reports the server version.

- Patch #870594 by marcingy, moshe weitzman, Josh Waihi: user_update_7004 fail during upgrade from Drupal 6 to 7.

- Patch #865072 by bleen18, jhodgdon: Bartik is default theme now ... documentation & tests need to be changed.

- Patch #269911 by jhodgdon, Freso, kiamlaluno, mradcliffe: search result trimming should not fall inside HTML entities/tags.

- Patch #607238 by agentrickard, catch, salvis: permissions are assumed to be unique among modules, but uniqueness is not enforced.

- Patch #797680 by lyricnz, jbrown: drupal_write_record() unnecessarily sets primary keys while updating.

#877020 follow-up by andypost: Hot-fix for tests in _forum_topics_unread() to get testbot working again.

  form input in the 'node type' edit form was way too harsh (affects the
  display of all 'trimmed / summary_or_trimmed' formatters on all text
  fields in all view modes), and irrelevant for text fields on non-node
  entities, which are currently all blocked to 'trim to 600 chars'.

   * Added field formatter settings for 'text_trimmed' and 'text_summary_or_trimmed' formatters
   * Removed 'teaser_length' settings for node types
   * Added upgrade path for 'teaser_length' variable in node_update_7011()
   * Fixed a test

- Patch #870594 by marcingy, moshe weitzman: user_update_7004 fail during upgrade from Drupal 6 to 7.

- Patch #843272 by David_Rothstein: overlay does a bunch of unnecessary form redirect handling in JavaScript.

- Patch #423888 by mikeryan, Crell, drunken monkey: use subqueries for ->countQuery(), at least for MySQL.

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

#835212 by plach, jhodgdon: Fixed locale_url_outbound_alter() should be run only on multilingual sites.

#842962 by jhodgdon, chx: Fixed hook_menu() and drupal_deliver_page() need to warn about access checks in documentation.