- Patch #999040 by Niklas Fiekas: corrected alternative control structure syntax in theme templates.

#364470 follow-up by Dave Reid, JohnAlbin, et al: Move submitted by back into a variable. The string approach was too limited.

#646874 by sun and David_Rothstein: Remove assumptions about Contextual links and Shortcut modules from template files.

- Patch #608036 by effulgentsia: add content_attributes() variable for tpl files, so RDF can be implemented better.

#473268 by David_Rothstein, sun, yoroy, Gábor Hojtsy, cwgordon7, et al.: Allow contextual editing of dang near everything on the page. Also adds a context system to menu local tasks.

- Patch #122098 by Damien Tournoud, catch, mdixoncm: split comment.timestamp into 'created' and 'changed' columns, just like for nodes.

- Patch #569362 by scor, effulgentsia, catch: add attributes and title_attributes() variables for tpl files so that RDFa and Microformats can be implemented.

- Patch #523950 by moshe weitzman, yched, catch: update comment rendering to take full advantage of the drupal_render() paradigm.

#306358 by dvessel, JohnAlbin, and flobruit: Add a single $classes string (and corresponding $classes_array) for all dynamic classes in template files.

#371231 by JohnAlbin and EclipseGC: Rename clear-block CSS class to clearfix, which is the lingo that designers use for it.

- 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.

#199809 by theborg: comment templates were not checking status properly (fix notice, allows themes to theme in-preview comments differently)

 - always include CVS Id tags in all files
 - add a new line after the CVS Id, if more code or phpdoc follows in the same code block
 - fix bogus Id tags previously added

#146386 by kbahey: refactor 'submitted by user - date' themeing and make it more verbose to translate