- #8193: Moving the two instances of the timezone list into a function.
- #3859: Adding drupal_goto for module/theme/settings pages. Aside from general drupal_goto usability, this fixes the bug of menu items not immediately appearing after enabling a module.

- Patch by Andy: improved help text / module description.

- Patch #9177 by James: fixed distributed authentication.

- Patch #9290 by Morbus / JonBob / TDobes: SUBTASK removal patch for menu.inc.

- Patch #9287 by JonBob: made the code style in the three database include files consistent with Drupal standards, and adds a wealth of Doxygen-style comments to aid developers in writing solid database access code using the API.

- Patch #9262 by Ber / JonBob: the menu did not build correctly, thus the additional menu's were never displayed, but were saved. Only the last custom menu was displayed.

- Patch #7466 by TDobes: comments module would add a link of register even if "user_register" was set to 0.

- Patch #8080 by TDobes: added teaser support to the book and page module.

- Patch #9261 by drumm: made the aggregator overview tables more consistent by adding a items column to the categories table which acts like the same column in the feeds table.

- Patch #9234 by TDobes: the latest menu changes have caused custom menu blocks not to render any output. If I create a new menu and menu items, and then enable the block, no output from that block is visible.

This commit fixes the problem: custom menus were being defined as MENU_CUSTOM_ITEM rather than MENU_CUSTOM_MENU.  It also fixes a problem in which custom menus were mistakenly given the MENU_VISIBLE_IN_BREADCRUMB bit when edited. This would cause their titles to show up in the breadcrumb (which is undesirable... only menu items should be in there).

Note that this will not fix any non-functioning custom menus you've defined since this bug appeared. You'll have to delete and recreate them or update the "type" column in the DB manually.

- Patch #9253 by Morbus: fixed bug that manifested itself with a duplicate page when a user has submitted a comment that goes into the moderation queue. Part of the problem seemed to be that the "your comment is in the moderation queue" message was set as a theme print, as opposed to a drupal_set_message().  This patch fixes that, as well as adding a drupal_goto() to redirect the user back to where they came.

- Patch #8942 by Morbus: when testing under devel.module, the "SELECT timestamp from {history}" SQL statement is executed multiple times in two different functions. This duplicated code should be placed in a function, and that's been done already with node_last_visited() - the remaining code was just never updated to use the new routine. This patch changes the old code to use node_last_visited, and also modifies node_last_visited() to cache the result of the database call.

- Patch #8398 by TDobes: changed permissions for the blog, story, and page modules (and all occurrances elsewhere) to match their 4.4.x equivalents.  In the discussion when these permissions were introduced, it was decided that "edit own ..." was clearer, but "maintain personal ..." slipped into CVS HEAD anyway, while "edit own ..." landed in the 4.4.x branch.

Changes are as follows:
"maintain personal blog" -> "edit own blog" (aggregator.module, blog.module, blogapi.module)
"maintain personal pages" -> "edit own pages" (page.module)
"maintain personal stories" -> "edit own stories (story.module)

- Patch #9238 by JonBob: added code and Doxygen comments to common.inc and
  bootstrap.inc.

- Small usability improvement thanks to using drupal_goto() after deleting an
  alias.

Now Drupal tries iconv, recode and mbstring to convert unknown XML encodings to UTF-8. It also throws a friendlier error message when none of these extensions is installed.

- RDF is not RSS so removing that for now.

- Call 'exit' hook when drupal_goto() is called.  Also necessary for the
  devel.module.

- Added URL aliases for 'index.rdf' and 'rss.xml'.  Google, Feedster and
  possibly other crawlers try fetching these frequently as can be seen
  from the watchdog logs.  Made possible by the recent path module change.

- Patch by Matt: made it possible to alias an URL multiple times.

- Patch by JonBob: updated the comment module to take advantage of the latest
  menu system improvements.

- Patch by JonBob: a significant documentation update for the menu system!

- More tab-improvements by JonBob: improved support for the default tabs!

* improves the doxygentation and help text.
* deletes comment_admin and comment_page; using proper callbacks instead.
* related/modified callbacks/menus/functions were tweaked to not use arg() at all.
* the "settings" subtab was weighted to -10 so it'd appear first (in prep of JonBob's local default).
* moderation pages weren't properly showing defined votes or thresholds; fixed.
* when moderation votes or thresholds didn't exist, no error stating as such was shown; fixed.
* we show "submit votes" on the moderation votes page only when votes actually exist.
* fixes the (broken in CVS) comment/reply and comment/edit features.
* fixes the (broken in CVS) "save settings" for comment view options and comment moderation.

In addition I:

* fixed a couple warnings introduced by Morbus' patch.
* fixed a couple translation bugs.
* fixed comment_node_url().

I also found that:

* the collapsed comment views (i.e. 'threaded list - collapsed) are broken.

- Patch #9010 by Morbus: reorganized the order of functions in the comment
  module.

- Patch #8509 by Killes and Steven: added support for sending compressed
  pages.  Useful to reduce your site's bandwidth.

- Made the example theme display status messages.  Not sure why it wasn't.

- Changed the way status messages are printed as per Kristjan's suggestion:
  http://drupal.org/files/issues/error_messages_list.png (issue #9138).

  drupal_set_message() has been changed to group message by type and a
  helper function, theme_status_message(), is added to display the messages.
  Chameleon and Xtemplate have been updated to use this new function.

- Updated CHANGELOG.txt.

- Marked required fields on the node (story, book, page, blog) and comment
  forms using the $required argument of the form_ functions.

- Replaced all Optional's and Required's from the taxonomy forms with proper
  use of the form_ functions.

Please check your contributed modules too!

- Renamed '... your ...' to '... my ...' (cfr. 'my account).