#732064 follow up by pwolanin: move lock system loading earlier to avoid stepping over it or attempting to use it before it is loaded

#722190 by bjaspan: avoid infite recursion in filter_list_format() even if the database has broken data under Drupal

#261258 by Damien Tournoud, David_Rothstein, pwolanin: node_save() could result in broken data with certain database configurations when log messages are not included

#704158 by mikeytown2, marvil07 and myself: fix notice in user_preferred_language() when the user has no preferred language yet

#422218 by salvis, sun: forum_load() should load the forum term id for a forum node, not just any term id it is related to

#604290 by JeremyFrench: speed up initial loading of user admin page considerably, when no filters are used

#212236 by wrwrwr: move empty paragraph handling to after other paragraph operations are done in _filter_autop()

#517642 by solipsist, lyrincz: db_field_set_default() omitted type check on default value, cauing problems for non-NULL fields

#510996 by salvatored, tuffnatty, jide: the @disabled jQuery selector was deprecated in v1.2, so do not use it anymore

#720516 by Dave Reid: taxonomy_get_term() and taxonomy_vocabulary_load() cannot restore their internal caches, therefore cannot be used in testing

#591804 by rfay, merlinofchaos, sp3boy: theme preprocess functions in include files only run on theme registry rebuild for tpl.php files in themes

#669554 by dww: reduce memory use of update module by only saving attributes update module needs from .info files

#330297 by Stefan Freudenberg, anarcat, jonhattan, mig5: themes in profiles directory were not discovered during install

#409676 by mrfelton: remove watchdog message when JS files are parsed by locale; had minimal debugging value

#358315 by neochief, Damien Tournoud, andypost: drupal_lookup_path() does not respect path alias ordering when older aliases are retained

#696052 by Dave Reid: locale module variables are not properly uninstalled when the module is removed, causing fatal errors (backport of #347288)

#396388 by jmpoure, Alex_Tutubalin, Shiny, andypost,: rework comment ordering subquery to be SQL standards (and therefore PostgreSQL) compatible

#287063 by mkalkbrenner, mikeryan: avoid node_delete() 'leaking' memory via node_load() caching (eg. when multiple nodes are being deleted)