- Patch #325169 by mundanity, Arancaytar, Crell, chx, picco, alexw: move error/exception handler higher up in the bootstrap process.

- Patch #337947 by codycraven, cwgordon7, axyjo, Jacine, grndlvl, seutje, ksenzee, Jaza, chx, sun, JacobSingh, yoroy, peximo: fixed whitespace issue for 'recent content block' in dashboard.

#550124 by c960657, catch, and Crell: Remove prepared statement caching, which was a nice idea, but uses up tons of memory without any tangible performance benefits.

- Patch #710406 by jhodgdon: node_search_execute() should no longer try to call taxonomy_node_update_index() because it no longer exists.

#628244 by catch, bangpound, and yched: Remove magic taxonomy field creation in favour of consistency.

#86299 by pwolanin, neochief, fwalch, thePanz, et al: Security hardening: Add 'current password' field to 'change password form'.