Issue #2686765 by sidharthap, thhafner: cacheUntilEntityChanges() is deprecated and should be replaced with addCacheableDependency()

Issue #2072945 by Berdir, plach, effulgentsia, Schnitzel, andypost, Wim Leers: Remove the $langcode parameter in EntityAccessControllerInterface::access() and friends

Issue #2543340 by Wim Leers, Fabianx: Convert BlockViewBuilder to use #lazy_builder (but don't yet let context-aware blocks be placeholdered)

Issue #2491155 by mikeburrelljr, Mac_Weber, opdavies: Update drupal.org and kernel.org URLs in core modules (Follow-up to 2489912)

Issue #2191115 by cs_shadow, alexrayu, JacobSanford, jhodgdon, Cottser: Clean up stale references to theme('foo') in documentation

Issue #2030571 by calebtr, daffie, filijonka, YesCT, Thomas Brekelmans, alexpott, Mile23, tadityar, Sharique, tim.plunkett, boztek: Expand Block with methods

Issue #2154435 by andypost, Berdir, mparker17: Rename EntityAccessController to EntityAccessControlHandler.

Issue #2216535 by jhodgdon, Berdir: Replace Node overview topic and Node API topic with Entity Hooks topic.

Issue #2099131 by jessebeach, Wim Leers, catch, Berdir, benjifisher, martin107, andypost: Use #pre_render pattern for entity render caching.

Issue #2173655 by Cottser, xjm, jessebeach, alexpott, rlmumford: Refactor theme() to _theme(); make it a private API to discourage module developers from circumventing the renderable build system.

Issue #1847002 by tim.plunkett, effulgentsia, msonnabaum: Move entity type classes from Drupal$provider\Plugin\Core\Entity to Drupal$provider\Entity.

Issue #1898034 by Cottser, jenlampton, joelpittet, Shawn DeArmond, idflood, Hydra, artofeclipse, rich.yumul, chrisjlee, gnuget, c4rl, thund3rbox: block.module - Convert PHPTemplate templates to Twig.

Issue #1927608 by EclipseGc, tim.plunkett, effulgentsia: Remove the tight coupling between Block Plugins and Block Entities.

Issue #1391694 by tim.plunkett, aspilicious, fago, pounard, plach, Crell, msonnabaum, tstoeckler: Use type-hinting for entity-parameters.

Issue #1871696 by tim.plunkett, xjm, sun, msonnabaum, EclipseGc: Convert block instances to configuration entities to resolve architectural issues.

Issue #1535868 by EclipseGc, tim.plunkett, xjm, Jody Lynn, sdboyer, naxoc, tizzo, effulgentsia, dawehner, disasm, beejeebus: Convert all blocks into plugins.

Using the language_manager wrapper function to return a language whether or not we're in the requet scope

- Patch #1510686 by cosmicdreams, vasi1186, webflo, disasm: replace remaining references to global () with drupal_container().

Issue #1500160 by jmarkel, tstoeckler: Better documentation for hook_block_info, especially the pages component

Issue #1373312 by sun: Assign system_main() block to 'content' region and help block to 'help' region by default.

Nate Lampton authored Oct 30, 2011 and catch committed Nov 01, 2011

Issue #22336 by quicksketch, scor, boombatower, and rfay. Move all core Drupal files under a core subdirectory.

#126070 follow-up by David_Rothstein: Rollback of previous patch; needs discussion/deferrment until D8.

#601932 by David_Rothstein, carlos8f, yoroy, Bojhan, et al: Allow dashboard to limit available blocks.