- 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'.

- Patch #535066 by jide, jbrown, marvil07, yoroy, mcjim, TheRec, mr.baileys: use CSS3 / IE filter to render toolbar shadow.

- Patch #708974 by jhodgdon: documentation improvements: provide an overview of ex-hook_nodeapi() operations.