- Patch #637146 by naxoc, David_Rothstein: HEAD install redirect failed because common.inc was not loaded in _db_check_install_needed().

#281405: Temporarily raise memory requirement to 40M, to cut down on support requests post-alpha. Let's work to get this back to 32M shortly. :)

- Patch #590656 by pwolanin, Pasqualle: harden one-time login links against vulnerability from disclosure of SQL backups, or SQL 'SELECT' injection.

- Patch #638070 by carlos8f, Gábor Hojtsy, ksenzee, pwolanin, chx, catch: router loaders causing a lot of database hits for access checks.

#678546 by rfay and jhodgdon: Improve wording of help text in admin/config/regional/language/configure.

#525622 by Frando, yched, et al: Add entity hook callbacks so that 'as link' formatters have a generic way to build the url of an 'entity'.

#616650 by Crell: Default MySQL to transactions ON. Makes sense now that we default to InnoDB as well.

#678714 by effulgentsia: Unify use of theme hook / template suggestions, fix clobbering problems, and improve suggestion discovery performance.

#636992 by catch, yched: Fixed Entity loading needs protection from infinite recursion. Prevents unnecessary user_load()s from RDF.

#595972 by katbailey, sun, TwoD, quicksketch, merlinofchaos, and dmitrig01: Allow AJAX settings command to extend Drupal.settings.

#678628 follow-up by jhodgdon: Remove buggy and incorrect 'More Help' functionality from Help module.

#679890 follow-up by Bojhan, aspilicious, and agentrickard: Remove more extraneous 'Please' in the interface.

#563106 by quicksketch, scor, andypost, ctmattice1, catch, yched, adrian: Fix critical upgrade path bugs from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7

#299308 by redndahead, Dave Reid, dropcube, catch, redndahead, and dbabbage: Add POD to installation requirements.

#601768 by Crell and Damien Tournoud: Add a DatabaseStatementEmpty to allow complex query to return a proper empty set.