Issue #2016629 by larowlan, neclimdul, sun, alexpott, jibran, ParisLiakos, donquixote, effulgentsia, msonnabaum: Refactor bootstrap to better utilize the kernel.

Revert "Issue #2016629 by larowlan, neclimdul, sun, alexpott, jibran, ParisLiakos, donquixote, effulgentsia, msonnabaum: Refactor bootstrap to better utilize the kernel."

This reverts commit cda051c4.

Issue #2016629 by larowlan, neclimdul, sun, alexpott, jibran, ParisLiakos, donquixote, effulgentsia, msonnabaum: Refactor bootstrap to better utilize the kernel.

Issue #1289536 by ParisLiakos, RobLoach, Crell, larowlan, fgm, pounard, Pancho, dawehner, scor, tim.plunkett, alexpott, socketwench: Switch Watchdog to a PSR-3 logging framework.

Revert "Issue #1289536 by RobLoach, Crell, Pancho, pounard, socketwench, fgm, dawehner, scor, tim.plunkett, larowlan, ParisLiakos: Switch Watchdog to a PSR-3 logging framework."

This reverts commit ef250ba2.

Issue #1289536 by RobLoach, Crell, Pancho, pounard, socketwench, fgm, dawehner, scor, tim.plunkett, larowlan, ParisLiakos: Switch Watchdog to a PSR-3 logging framework.

Issue #2228341 by sun, znerol, skipyT, ParisLiakos: Objectify session management functions + remove session.inc.

Revert "Issue #2218039 by sun, dawehner: Render the maintenance/install page like any other HTML page."

Broke update.php.

This reverts commit 10b03890.

Issue #2169765 by philipz, Sutharsan, ckrina, c_lehel, LewisNyman: Redesign update.php to be more consistent with the installation process.

Revert "Issue #2169765 by philipz, Sutharsan, ckrina, c_lehel, LewisNyman: Redesign update.php to be more consistent with the installation process."

This reverts commit 728aad1d.

Issue #2169765 by philipz, Sutharsan, ckrina, c_lehel, LewisNyman: Redesign update.php to be more consistent with the installation process.

Issue #340723 by ParisLiakos, sun, Berdir, glennpratt, Cottser, swentel, alexpott, tstoeckler, Xano, tim.plunkett, BassistJimmyJam | beejeebus: Make modules and installation profiles only require .info.yml files.

Revert "Issue #340723 by ParisLiakos, sun, Berdir, glennpratt, Cottser, swentel, tstoeckler, Xano, tim.plunkett, BassistJimmyJam: Make modules and installation profiles only require .info.yml files."

This reverts commit b4c561d0.

Issue #340723 by ParisLiakos, sun, Berdir, glennpratt, Cottser, swentel, tstoeckler, Xano, tim.plunkett, BassistJimmyJam: Make modules and installation profiles only require .info.yml files.

Issue #2192649 by sun, chakrapani, sidharthap: Remove drupal_set_title() from installation and update process.

Issue #2198343 by damiankloip, longwave: Convert all usages of cache() and cache_invalidate_tags() procedural functions.

Issue #2168011 by xjm, jessebeach, Damien Tournoud, znerol, Xano: Remove all 7.x to 8.x update hooks and disallow updates from the previous major version.

Issue #2167109 by Berdir, sun, alexpott, ACF, acrollet, adamdicarlo, Albert Volkman, andreiashu, andyceo, andypost, anenkov, aspilicious, barbun, beejeebus, boombatower, cam8001, chriscalip, chx, cosmicdreams, dagmar, damiankloip, dawehner, deviance, disasm, dixon_, dstol, ebrowet, Gábor Hojtsy, heyrocker, Hydra, ianthomas_uk, japicoder, jcisio, jibran, julien, justafish, jvns, KarenS, kbasarab, kim.pepper, larowlan, Lars Toomre, leschekfm, Letharion, LinL, lirantal, Lukas von Blarer, marcingy, Mike Wacker, mrf, mtift, mtunay, n3or, nadavoid, nick_schuch, Niklas Fiekas, ParisLiakos, pcambra, penyaskito, pfrenssen, plopesc, Pol, Rok Žlender, rvilar, swentel, tim.plunkett, tobiasb, tsvenson, typhonius, vasi1186, vijaycs85, wamilton, webchick, webflo, wizonesolutions, xjm, yched, YesCT, znerol: Remove Variable subsystem.

Issue #2001206 by andypost, penyaskito, herom, Crell, ebeyrent, DmitryDrozdik: Replace drupal_container() with Drupal::service().

Issue #1998638 by damiankloip, dawehner, kim.pepper, cosmicdreams, alexpott, larowlan, Damien Tournoud: Replace almost all remaining superglobals (, , etc.) with Symfony Request object.

Issue #1998638 by damiankloip, dawehner, kim.pepper, cosmicdreams, larowlan, Damien Tournoud: Replace all remaining superglobals (, , etc.) with Symfony Request object.

Issue #2004086 by dawehner, pwolanin, katbailey, tim.plunkett, vijaycs85, fabpot: The Request service must be synthetic.

Issue #2045931 by PerthSam152, LinL, adsw12, joelpittet: Replace all module_exists() deprecated function calls.

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