(cherry picked from commit 2e5e060c)

Issue #2631774 by Wim Leers, marthinal, dawehner, tedbow, tyler.frankenstein, gabesullice, valthebald: Impossible to update Comment entity with REST (HTTP PATCH): bundle field not allowed to be updated, but EntityNormalizer::denormalize() requires it

Issue #2719695 by alexpott, Mile23: Fix 'Drupal.Classes.ClassDeclaration.CloseBraceAfterBody' coding standard

Issue #2572693 by Mile23, andriyun, andypost, attiks: Fix 'Drupal.ControlStructures.ControlSignature' coding standard

Issue #2456477 by Berdir, dawehner, heddn, pguillard: Convert deprecated \Drupal\simpletest\KernelTestBase tests to KernelTestBaseNG

Issue #2665992 by alexpott, klausi, heykarthikwithu, xjm, tstoeckler: @file is not required for classes, interfaces and traits

Issue #2502917 by dimaro, rakesh.gectcr, DuaelFr, suhel.rangnekar: Replace deprecated usage of entity_create used with variable entity types with a direct call to EntityManager::getStorage()->create()

Issue #2672604 by saurabh.tripathi.cs: Replace deprecated usage of entity_create('taxonomy_term') and entity_create('taxonomy_vocabulary') with a direct call to Term::create() and Vocabulary::create()

Issue #2669400 by jungle, dimaro, rakesh.gectcr, lluvigne, Mile23: Replace deprecated usages of entity_create('type') with a direct call to <EntityType>::create()

Issue #2641588 by naveenvalecha, Mac_Weber, dimaro, heykarthikwithu: Replace deprecated usage of  entity_create('file') with a direct call to File::create()

Issue #2641584 by Mac_Weber, heykarthikwithu, legovaer: Replace deprecated usage of  entity_create('field_config') with a direct call to FieldConfig::create()

Issue #2641608 by Mac_Weber: Replace deprecated usage of  entity_create('rdf_mapping') with a direct call to RdfMapping::create()

Issue #2503411 by DuaelFr, Mac_Weber: Replace deprecated usage of entity_create('comment*') with a direct call to Comment/CommentType::create()

Issue #2641586 by Mac_Weber, marvin_B8: Replace deprecated usage of  entity_create('field_storage_config') with a direct call to  FieldStorageConfig::create()

Issue #2510150 by tduong, Berdir: AccountProxy is not calling date_set_default_timezone() for anonymous users

Issue #2602448 by pjonckiere, heykarthikwithu, jhodgdon: In rdf.api,php, add @return value to the hook_rdf_namespaces()

Issue #2429191 by claudiu.cristea, amateescu, yched, nlisgo, Berdir, alexpott, klausi, Wim Leers, xjm, catch: Deprecate entity_reference.module and move its functionality to core

Issue #2520540 by alexpott: Enforced configuration dependencies shouldn't have to be repeated in the calculated dependencies

Issue #2112679 by Berdir, damiankloip, nlisgo, krlucas, lokapujya, m1r1k, piyuesh23, blueminds, stefan.r, subhojit777, dawehner, kerby70, Dustin LeBlanc, znerol, JeroenT, borisson_, scor, amitgoyal, s_leu: getUsername() should return the username getDisplayName() for the formatted user name

Issue #2560783 by stefan.r, joelpittet, lauriii, Cottser, Sutharsan, kgoel, justAChris, Gábor Hojtsy, dawehner, jhodgdon, effulgentsia, xjm, andypost, googletorp: Replace !placeholder with :placeholder for URLs in hook_help() implementations

Issue #2556785 by Antti J. Salminen, lauriii: Specific preprocess functions doesn't support second level without first level

Issue #2557871 by alexpott: Remove all usages SafeMarkup::checkPlain() from template preprocess functions and attributes

Issue #2214241 by mortendk, mdrummond, lauriii, galooph, ShaunDychko, jjcarrion, b0unty, joelpittet, scor, amitgoyal, aboros, Manuel Garcia, hkirsman, BLadwin, hussainweb, sushilkr, emma.maria, nlisgo, yched, LewisNyman, davidhernandez, mikl, camoa, dman, dodorama: Field default markup - removing the divitis

Issue #2501697 by ZenDoodles, leslieg, Les Lim, pfrenssen, joelpittet, hestenet, YesCT, scor, Cottser, xjm, lauriii, dsnopek, alexpott, akalata, Wim Leers, acouch, kgoel: Remove SafeMarkup::set in rdf_preprocess_comment()

Issue #2346857 by andypost, claudiu.cristea, amateescu, m1r1k, Mile23, rpayanm, epari.siva, Berdir, yched: Set default property bundle_entity_type in EntityType to NULL

Issue #2497585 by mpdonadio, cilefen, borisson_, pjonckiere: Simpletest should set a system timezone in setUp

Issue #2321969 by rpayanm, subhojit777, prics, LinL, JeroenT, Temoor, prashantgoel, Mile23, pcambra, Sumi: Replace all instances of file_load(), file_load_multiple(), entity_load('file') and entity_load_multiple('file') with static method calls

Issue #1392754 by tss, justAChris, jhodgdon: Comply with new documentation standards for @file for namespaced class files

Issue #2511472 by Wim Leers, Fabianx, dawehner: Refactor all usages of drupal_render()/Renderer::render() that break #2450993

Issue #2504109 by EvanSchisler, cilefen: A bunch of old update test dump scripts are still hanging out