- Patch #1110810 by JohnAlbin, TR: CVS $ tag lurks in .htaccess file (and other dank corners of Drupal).

- Patch #919596 by mathroc, AnalogFile, dmitrig01, boombatower: -MultiViews in .htaccess requires odd AllowOverride Options=All,MultiViews.

#348448 follow-up by mfb: Remove default E_STRICT error reporting. We're too far into the release cycle for changes like this. Let's pick it up again in Drupal 8! :)

- Patch #348448 by mfb, c960657, marvil07, cdale, jpmckinney: fixed PHP strict warnings when running tests and for PHP 5.3.

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

#289120 by jastern: Set magic_quotes_sybase = 0 to prevent default php.ini settings from double-quoting JavaScript in Drupal.

- Patch #308834 by c960657: move setting of magic_quotes_runtime out of settings.php because (i) we don't want a user to change it and (ii) it gets executed a bit earlier in the Drupal bootstrap.

- Patch #217170 by maartenvg, rbiffl: boolean PHP settings are best set with php_flag instead of php_value.

- Patch #150245 by webchick, bjaspan, ralf, Arancaytar et al: move the .schema files into .install files to prevent mistakes.

- Patch #144634 by chx: fixed critical bug that prevented language negotiation to work after/when drupal_goto() is called.

#117151 by profix898: the second part of our FilesMatch list contained complete file names which should be protected (eg. Tag), but should not match parts of the file names (eg. Tagging.txt)

#151634 by Ralf Stamm: protect .schema files from being read over the web, if .htaccess is parsed and adhered to