#533584 by chx, dww, and Nick Lewis: Allow version-level dependency support to work with beta, rc, etc.

#193383 by TheRec, JirkaRybka, and Bart Jansens: Centralize calls to set_time_limit() and prevent warnings/errors.

#531476 by aaron and mfb: Add favicon mimetype as a theme setting to avoid expensive calls to file system.

#526120 by catch: Remove the related terms feature from Taxonomy module. This can now be accomplished with Field API.

#76422 by coreyp_1: Greet admin users with a prompt to create content types rather than an access denied page when no content types exist on node/add.

#433992 by David_Rothstein and Frando: Change #theme_wrapper to #theme_wrappers to allow multiple theme functions to execute on renderable objects.

#489762 by JohnAlbin: Add theme lineage information to .info file cache and fix several edge-case bugs.

- Patch #537044 by talor: hook_taxonomy_term_update and hook_taxonomy_term_insert were called backwards.

- Patch #493466 by arianek, jhodgdon: documentation for file_save_upload inaccurately describes a parameter.

- Patch #342950 by Josh Waihi: moving PostgreSQL stored procedures to the PostgreSQL database backend, where it belongs.

- Patch #537062 by yched: remove unneeded comment_edit() page callback and convert some code from arrays to objects for consistency.

- Patch #528918 by lyaunzbe: document that hook_form_alter() passes  by reference. lyaunzbe is a new contributor -- welcome!