- Patch #413192 by catch et al: make taxonomy terms fieldable (not to be confused with taxonomy terms as fields).

- Patch #428744 by Gabor: make the main page content a real block and clean up some of the content API.

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

- Patch #394374 by cwgordon7, wretched sinner, et al: improved language of comment status. Usability improvement based on testing in Baltimore.

#310863 by bangpound, dboulet, and catch: Stop locale module from auto-installing with custom install profiles.

- Patch #288039 by sun, ff1, agentrickard, fgm, ultimateboy: improved usability of the aliased URL admin page.

- Patch #225450 by Crell, chx, bjaspan, catch, swentel, recidive et al: next generation database layer for Drupal 7.

  The "expert" will be a minimalistic profile for developers.  This opens
  the doors to add more things to the default profile and/or to create
  additional install profiles for core. It also helps set an example for
  more install profiles in the contributed modules repository.

- Patch #197765 by boydjd et al: renamed 'story' to 'article' -- further backed by usability testing at UoM.

#199400 by ChrisKennedy: use the SERVER_NAME as default site name, instead of the misleading 'Drupal' name

 - possible timeouts with installing/enabling lots of modules at once in core
 - enable install profiles to have more modules without fear of timeouts on install
 - bootstrap Drupal before each module load, so previously enabled modules are bootstrapped
 - let modules run their hook_requirements() (although actually calling them will be possibly fixed in another patch)

 - use a two pass localization process so localization is ready for the configure form and profile tasks
 - fix awkward form API workarounds which were introduced before we used a full bootstrap anyway
 - allow for more usable localized profiles by letting them skip language selection
 - lots of documentation improvements to profiles and the installer functions

#178581 by lot of contributors: opt-in for update module on install and update to avoid any privacy concerns

  Woot, woot! :)

revert requirement for 'update' module, which is not yet in Drupal core, but slipped in with http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=71956