- Patch #295255 by yettyn, jhodgdon, sun, effulgentsia, nirbhasa: clean-up the upgrade path: UPGRADE.txt.

- Patch #865072 by bleen18, jhodgdon: Bartik is default theme now ... documentation & tests need to be changed.

#450540 by mcrittenden: Remove reference to Stark in upgrade documentation, since it only appears in D7.

#67234 by Ralf, Dave Reid, David_Rothstein, Rob Loach, dww, et al: Added a permission to update.php.

- Patch #570572 by winston, David_Rothstein | Shai, Xano, alexanderpas, emmajane, kazar: changed label for user/1 account from 'administrator' to 'site maintenance account'.

- Patch #430342 by kkaefer et al: usability improvement: changed 'site maintenance' to 'maintenance mode'.

#206281 by keith.smith: document that people should look into the new system requirements when they upgrade

#175876 by hazexp, webernet, keith.smith: unify module/theme/translation download links and include more pointers to these locations

#152967 by keith.smith, webchick, Morbus Iff and KentByte: update the upgrade instructions for Drupal 6

#170638 by JirkaRybka and chx: move update access variable to settings.php, so we can check whether it is wide open, and we have one place for settings

   + reorganized ?q=admin/settings
   + deprecated the _settings hook

- Created separate upgrade instructions.  Will hopefully make it easier to spot upgrade isntructions.