- Patch #352180 by Garret Albright, wrwrwr: better multi-site friendly 'www' addition/removal in .htaccess.

- Patch #334283 by Damien Tournoud, andypost, Freso et al: add context to t() to help deal with ambigious strings (and improved the locale APIs a bit). Example: May is both a short month name as a long month name in English, but not necessarily in other languages.

#446898 by RoboPhred: Change URL of text formats settings page to admin/settings/formats rather than filter.

- Patch #202775 by michaelfavia, jabapyth: fixed database testing and error handling during installation.

#483808 by chx and Crell: Default DBTNG conditions to IN when an array of values is passed in, to match the field query API.

#392494 by yched and bjaspan: Provide a query API for Field API. This is necessary because we can't assume fields will be stored in a database, due to pluggable storage backends.

- Patch #156582 by c960657, Damien Tournoud, townxelliot: added support for timeouts to drupal_http_request().

#480660 follow-up by c960657: unset variables, since array_slice() can cause issues on some versions of PHP.