- Refactor partial-page handling for the maintenance page. It's an exotic quirk for update.php and belongs there.

- Patch #59863 by sun et al: added a scripts/drupal.sh to execute Drupal code from the command line.  This is great for using Drupal as a scripting framework, or to write backup or migration scripts.

- Patch #107358 by m3avrck, robert douglass, heine, eaton et al: Prevent multiple form processing: causing duplication of nodes/users.

- Patch #117917 by chx, greg, webchick et al: fix problems with the automatic domain extraction  -- prevents users from logging in.

- Patch #76522 by RobRoy: avoid name clash between modules and install profiles.  Removing redundant hook.