Issue #1981342 by aspilicious, andypost, swentel: Drop procedural usage of fields in [s-u-v] modules.

Issue #1888424 by katbailey, steveoliver, twistor, beejeebus, effulgentsia: Change notice: Make Drupal's URL generation logic available to HttpKernel, and minimize code repetition/divergence.

Issue #1957154 by joates, ayelet_Cr, xjm | Berdir: Replace calls to drupal_container()->get('module_handler()') service with Drupal::moduleHandler().

Issue #1999322 by elvis2, alexander.ilivanov | Berdir: Remove node_save() and node_delete()/node_delete_multiple() in favor of $node->save()/$node->delete().

Issue #1991088 by alexpott: Fixed Test info not displayed for PHPUnit tests when using run-tests.sh.

Issue #1818560 by Berdir, fago, Wim Leers, jessebeach, dawehner, YesCT: Convert taxonomy entities to the new Entity Field API.

This reverts commit 13b929b6.

Issue #1068840 by sun, TR, Alan D., droplet, Damien Tournoud, tim.plunkett: Fixed core/includes/standard.inc contains inaccurate country data.

Issue #1825592 follow-up by sun, alexpott: Clean-ups to --repeat and --die-on-fail capabilities in run-tests.sh.

Issue #1825592 by alexpott: Add --repeat and --die-on-fail to run-tests.sh to make random test failure diagnosis easier.

Issue #1331486 by katbailey, chx, sun, beejeebus, amateescu: Move module_invoke_*() and friends to an Extensions class.

Revert "Issue #1331486 by katbailey, chx, sun, beejeebus, amateescu: Move module_invoke_*() and friends to an Extensions class. Broke core tests after commit."

This reverts commit c80c3e18.

Issue #1331486 by katbailey, chx, sun, beejeebus, amateescu: Move module_invoke_*() and friends to an Extensions class.

Issue #347988 by sun, Berdir, dawehner, Damien Tournoud, moshe weitzman: Move $user->data into own table.

Issue #1269742 by katbailey, beejeebus, pwolanin, g.oechsler, ksenzee: Make path lookup code into an pluggable class.

Issue #1808200 by sun: Fixed Unit test performance significantly decreased since system list config conversion.

Issue #1706064 by chx, katbailey, effulgentsia, podarok et al: Compile the Injection Container to disk.

Issue #1705748 by n3or, tim.plunkett, sun, xjm, boombatower: Convert simpletest settings to configuration system.

Issue #1719530 follow-up by sun: SimpleTest hasn't been converted to CMI yet; add a stop-gap rename in conf array.

- Patch #1683884 by sun: Update, simplify, and speedup run-tests.sh for PSR-0, and allow to run all tests of a module.

- Patch #1263208 by Niklas Fiekas, BTMash, aiwata55, Berdir, kathyh: upgrade path for blog module removal.

- Patch #1183208 by effulgentsia, Niklas Fiekas, katbailey, no_commit_credit, catch: remove variable_get()('clean_url()') and switch to index.php/path pattern for dirty URL support.