#345591 by JacobSingh, pwolanin, c960657: add additional return data of protocol and status_messaga at all times, not just on error in drupal_http_request()

#458704 by markus_petrux, tic2000, Damien Tournoud: only remove the www. prefix from autodetected cookie domains, not custom set cookie domains

#682784 by andrewfn, naxoc, Island Usurper: make it possible to remove query strings and fragments from menu items after added

#259679 by pwolanin: add more specific checking to user_category_load() of the path, so the edit tab will show properly when seeing other tabs

#265973 by clemens.tolboom, Damien Tournoud, Uccio, dixon_, mr.baileys: make Drupal capable of handling bigger XML-RPC messages by removing some unnecessary processing

#49941 by geodaniel, Davy Van Den Bremt, bdragon: let users set no expiry on statistics module data if they want to

#478946 by Scott Reynolds, agentrickard: node_access batch rebuild will fail when a node isn't loadable

#332703 by Damien Tournoud, hajo: user password request should check name access rules against names, email access rules against emails

#323528 by halcyonCorsair, jhedstrom, Damien Tournoud, andypost: UPDATE queries should not use table name aliases for pgsql compatibility

#340557 by Dave Cohen, Dave Reid, dropcube, smk-ka: speed up drupal_is_front_page() by caching its value instead of computing each time

#360023 by greggles, rszrama, stella, sun, andypost: add missing comment publish action and clean up some code documentation

#256001 by bjaspan, stormsweeper, Darren Oh: pgsql driver does not handle unsigned numeric fields properly

#133188 by Behrang, John Morahan, frega: Line break converter can result in empty node display due to PCRE limits

#638702 by jhodgdon: fix issues where the return value of db_affected_rows() was not properly considered

#566390 by Gábor Hojtsy, seutje, Jose Reyero: Apply locale import protection user setting to plural forms the same way we apply to other parts of the .po file

#265719 by kkaefer, JacobSingh, ksenzee, pivica: fix path mangling in CSS aggregation code to be sure to generate IE compatible CSS

#43462 by leafish_dylan, c960657, andypost: simplify and fix compatibility of compression code in page caching

#495956 by cafuego, sun, andypost, Josh Waihi, axyo: do not assume that the database will insert role numbers or filter format indexes in a specific way

#222926 by deviantintegral, sun, jcnventura, tic2000, jenlampton, smk-ka: htmlcorrector filter escapes HTML comments

#796048 by jbafford: if JS files are concatenated with a one line comment and a multiline comment, that can lead up to JS parse issues

#323438 by emok, chx, mfb: uploaded files become arrays in previews, so object property checking will not work on them (from PHP 5.2.12+)

#306611 by joshk, jbomb, sun, dereine, andypost: avoid calling nonexistent action callbacks (eg. when a module is disabled); also backport some documentation improvements

#523058 by catch, sun, c960657, smk-ka, pwolanin, andypost: optimize calls to check_plain() by trying to use new PHP 5 features and inlining UTF-8 checking

#587568 by Berdir, yhager: improve PHP 5.3 compatibility by using hook_nodeapi() the right way in node_search()

#229051 by jaydub, ainigma32, Josh Waihi, Dave Reid, druido, bellHead: solve top visitors pagination issues in statistics module with postgresql

#266488 by MadHarold, nbz, Damien Tournoud, sbandyopadhyay: fix some errors in username validation, clean up code style and add missing support for apostrophes

#362256 by pwolanin: backport poll module vote number form access handling from D7, avoid clearing vote numbers when editing a poll