- Patch #607896 by Benjamin Melançon, scor: add date_iso8601() function to common.inc. Part of the RDFa exception.

Patch #84008 by deviantintegral, plumbley, lilou, lambic: fixed timer_read() returns NULL (no value) after timer_stop(). Added timer tests.

- Patch #589126 by mfb: fixed bug with user module using a flood window of 6 hours, but flood events more than 1 hour old being deleted by cron. Improved API documentation, and added tests.

- Patch #550718 by sun, alexanderpas: admin/people needs to have default tab so it looks consistent on ?q=admin.

#356074 by chx and Damien Tournoud: Provide a sequences API. Gets rid of stupid tables that only contain an incrementing ID, and fixes database import problems due to user ID 0.

#516150 by David_Rothstein, dropcube, Senpai, alexanderpas, sun: Add fallback for main content block rendering. (Make it so you can't render your site completely unusable by disabling block module. Oopsie.)

- Patch #278592 by catch, Dave Reid, andypost, lilou, sun, tobiasb: sync 6.x extra updates with HEAD.

#473268 by David_Rothstein, sun, yoroy, Gábor Hojtsy, cwgordon7, et al.: Allow contextual editing of dang near everything on the page. Also adds a context system to menu local tasks.

#511286 follow-up by DamZ: Make testMenuGetNames() less brittle (and also fix it so we can turn testing bot back on).

- Patch #511286 by JacobSingh, David_Rothstein, dmitrig01, Gábor Hojtsy, ksenzee et al: add customizable shortcuts to the toolbar.

- Patch #602582 by dww, cweagans: changed name and description in update.info to reflect update manager functionality.