- Patch #302268 by tizzo, bubbasan, Ryan Palmer et al: converted module to new database abstraction layer.

- Patch #373613 by drewish, quicksketch: working around some Debian issues.  They ship a different GD library.

- Patch #226876 by csevb10, dave reid, et al: converted more queries to the new database abstraction layer.

  times (such as crop, scale, then desaturate) without quality loss, we need to
  pass images by their raw GD (or other library) resources rather than re-opening
  the same image repeatedly, which causes wasted processing and loss of quality when
  using JPEG images.  This patch reworks the image toolkits, adds some new image
  manipulations and adds some impressive SimpleTests.

#304330 by ximo, alpritt, Amitaibu, edmund.kwok, Xano, ff1, BrightLoudNoise, et al: Dramatically improved text format widget. USABILITY AWESOMENESS.

#287178 follow-up by dereine and Dave Reid: Fix notice in OpenID module which is referencing missing form_id variable.

#304163 by chx: Allow update.php to re-generate settings.php. Now possible to upgrade Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. Oh, yeah.