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

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.

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

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

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

- 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.

- Many form_ functions called theme('form_element') with the wrong parameters!

- Fixed order of parameters in form_checkboxes() (plural).

- Patch #9049 by JonBob: fixed a number of tab issues.

- Patch by Steven and me: refactored the form handling of nodes. The node system is now using form_set_error() and friends like the rest of Drupal does. This makes for both a consistent user experience and consistent code. It simplifies the forms and validation code, however, it does change the node API slightly:

    * The _validate hook and the _nodeapi('validate') hook of the node API (1) no longer take an 'error' parameter and (2) should no longer return an error array. To set an error, call form_set_error().

    * The _form hook of the node module no longer takes a form hook and should not worry about displaying errors. Ditto for _nodeapi('form_post') and _nodeapi('form_pre').

- Patch #8973 by JonBob: Drupal contains many undefined variables and array indices, which makes PHP throw a lot of warnings when the reporting level is set to E_ALL. Things run fine with these warnings, but as a matter of code style if nothing else we should probably strive to avoid them. The attached fixes most of the more egregious offenders (about 95% of the warnings when I load /node on my test site).

- Patch #8941 by JonBob: allow local tasks to be ordered by weight, as well
  as simplifying the theming of local tasks so they can be more easily
  rendered in a non-tab manner.

- Preventing caching of page when status messages are present (needed for redirects after form submission to work properly)
- Double-quotes to Single-quotes

- Patch #8603 by TDobes: added support for sticky forum topics to the blog
  and forum module.

  correctly.

- Patch #8617 by TDobes: changes all gifs to pngs for better consistency (and
  to get of proprietary formats).

- Added forum-sticky.png.  Made by Steven.

- Patch #7696 by TDobes: renamed 'static' to 'sticky' which is a more
  logical name.  Requires a database upgrade.

First tab improvements by Adrian:

  + Changed menu.inc to generate two separate lists instead of nested lists:
    that seems to be the only alternative to get rid of absolute positioning.

  + Changed the tabs code to be more sexy and put the code in misc/drupal.css
    so all themes are automagically updated.

Tabs patch!

CHANGES
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 + Introduced tabs. First, we extended the menu system to support tabs. Next, a tab was added for every link that was (1) an administrative action other than the implicit 'view' (2) relevant to that particular page only. This is illustrated by the fact that all tabs are verbs and that clicking a page's tab leads you to a subpage of that page.

 + Flattened the administration menu. The tabs helped simplify the navigation menu as I could separate 'actions' from 'navigation'. In addition, I removed the 'administer > configuration'-menu, renamed 'blocks' to 'sidebars' which I hope is a bit more descriptive, and made a couple more changes. Earlier, we already renamed 'taxonomy' to 'categorization' and we move 'statistics' under 'logs'.

 + Grouped settings. All settings have been grouped under 'administer > settings'.

TODO
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 + Update core themes: only Xtemplate default supports tabs and even those look ugly.  Need help.

 + Update contributed modules.  The menu() hook changed drastically.  Updating your code adhere the new menu() function should be 90% of the work.  Moreover, ensure that your modue's admin links are still valid and that URLs to node get updated to the new scheme ('node/view/x' -> 'node/x').

- Fixing a copy paste error in file.inc.
- Some double => single quote changes.