Issue #697946 by voleger, pguillard, pillarsdotnet, andypost, alansaviolobo, alexpott, vaibhavjain, MerryHamster, sja112, kim.pepper, shaktik, ravi.shankar, Pooja Ganjage, daffie, Mile23, legolasbo, joelpittet, almaudoh, xjm, Berdir, scor: Properly deprecate module_load_include() and move it into \Drupal::moduleHandler() service

Issue #2347783 by kim.pepper, andypost, almaudoh, gumanist, aleevas, rodrigoaguilera, Berdir, saurabh-2k17, Spokje, dhirendra.mishra, alexpott, paulocs, izus, Wim Leers, KapilV, naveenvalecha, anmolgoyal74, subson, yo30, harsha012, mrinalini9, daffie, voleger, dww, fietserwin, tim.plunkett, joachim, larowlan: Deprecate drupal_get_path() and drupal_get_filename() and replace with ExtensionList::getPath() and ExtensionList::getPathname()

Issue #2875279 by Spokje, John Cook, jungle, voleger, mradcliffe, mrinalini9, jpatel657, quietone, jonathanshaw, alexpott, joachim, rajeshwari10, RajeevK, Yogesh Pawar, James.Shee, lcngeo, borisson_, time2buzzthetower, ccasals, kavo: Update core modules to use the new batch builder

Issue #2776975 by joelpittet, dawehner, tim.plunkett, xjm, pfrenssen: March 3, 2017: Convert core to array syntax coding standards for Drupal 8.3.x RC phase

Issue #1998056 by Sutharsan, clemens.tolboom, penyaskito: Automatically update interface translations using cron.

Issue #1827448 by RobLoach, sun, jbrown, tstoeckler: Use __DIR__ instead of DRUPAL_ROOT where possible/sensible.

Issue #1804688 by Sutharsan, YesCT, clemens.tolboom, Gábor Hojtsy, webflo, Jose Reyero: Download and import interface translations.