- Patch #235821 by kbahey and pwolanin: include upgrade path for cron changes, improved security of key.

- Patch #232037 by pwolanin and flobruit: block_list() renders all blocks even on 404.  Refactored the code a bit so ithere is a split between loading and rendering of blocks.  By doing so, we are no longer forced to render _all_ blocks if we know they won't be shown.  There is more room for improvement here, I believe, but this is an incremental improvement.

- Patch #234403 by alienbrain: drupal_mail_send() should use CRLFs instead of LFs in e-mail headers.

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

- Patch #81931 by webchick et al: made the recent comments block configurable.  Somme minor changes by me.

- Patch #30984 by webchick, keith.smith, kkaefer, Crell et al: provide descriptions for permissions on the permission administration page.

- Patch #222183 by Gabor and Keith: make the input formats reorderable as a first step towards better input format handling, and ultimately, good WYSIWYIG support.

- Patch #181578 by Moshe: removed distributed authentication code from user_save().  Factored the relevant code out to a separate function.

- Patch #196862 by earnie et al: make drupal_lookup_path() a tad faster by eliminating an SQL query.