- Patch #521838 by catch, jrchamp, CorniI, sun | Damien Tournoud, drewish, chx, moshe weitzman, yched, Dries: drupal_get_schema_versions() took 30% of page execution time on /admin.

- Patch #550718 by alexanderpas, Gábor Hojtsy | Dries, webchick, ugerhard: tabs on admin pages are not accessible from overviews and menus.

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

- Patch #581534 by pwolanin | sun: fix redirecting after submitting a comment on a multi-page comment thread.

- Patch #581760 by yoroy: by default, don't center-align the user login form in the block. It is still center-aligned in Garland.

- Patch #551694 by effulgentsia, rfay, sun | moshe weitzman, Dries: standardized the return of status messages in AJAX callbacks.

Patch #331893 by mgifford, nigel, Xano, Everett Zufelt | Cliff, Bojhan, mcrittenden, webchick, Josh Waihi, alpritt, heather: improved the password checker.

- Patch #583008 by Damien Tournoud: DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_ACCESS doesn't exist anymore, but is still an explicit bootstrap step.

- Patch #500038 by Shai, sreynen | webchick: changed default for RSS output from 'teaser only' to 'full node'.

- Patch #556018 by Damien Tournoud, dereine | sun: rename drupal_to_js() and drupal_json() for consistency and readability.

Patch #579366 by sun, litwol | chx, Dries: simplified form API redirection handling. I can actually understand it now. ;-).

- Patch #550742 by douggreen | Zarabadoo: remove Search box from theme system, default to block system instead.

#564394 follow-up by Damien Tournoud: Remove crappy old pgsql-only db_add/change_column() functions from database layer.

- Patch #445062 by sun: removed system_requirements check for tokenizer now that the registry is gone.

- Patch #306611 by jbomb, sun | Damien Tournoud: fixed fatal error when trying to invoke non-existing action callbacks.

- Patch #11218 by David_Rothstein, sun, quicksketch, duncf, awood456, dropcube, mgifford | pwolanin, dww, RobRoy, Crell, webchick, beginner, ray007, bjaspan, chx, Gábor Hojtsy, Steven, Dries, lutegrass, sym, guardian, matt2000, geerlingguy, SeanBannister, matt westgate, com2, praseodym: allow default text formats per role, and integrate text format permissions.

- Patch ##525540 by jvandyk, sun, jhodgdon, fago | webchick, TheRec, Dave Reid, brianV, sun.core, cweagans, Dries: gave trigger.module and includes/actions.inc an API overhaul.  Simplified definitions of actions and triggers and removed dependency on the combination of hooks and operations. Triggers now directly map to module hooks.

- Patch #300993 by sun: extended the roles and permissions API so we can revoke permissions from a role etc.

- Patch #581594 by douggreen: minor db_query() fix to search for the new database abstraction layer.

- Patch #283723 by pwolanin, sun | eddified, moshe weitzman, Dries, aether, Arancaytar: Added Make menu_tree_output() return renderable output.

before a form builder function, to facilitate common form elements. Clean-up
from form_builder changes from CTools patch. Has nice side-benefit of making
all form functions' signatures consistent.

#564394 by Berdir and Crell: Removed database BC layer. nah nah nah nah... hey hey hey... gooood byeeee...

#574796 by sun: Fixed 'Article' content-type permissions not granted to admin role after installation.