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.

This reverts commit cc84f390 - bad
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Issue #1987816 by pdrake, disasm, ParisLiakos, pguillard, vijaycs85, dawehner: Convert system_batch_page() to a new style controller.

Issue #2038135 by RobLoach, donquixote, Crell, ParisLiakos, catch: Use the Composer autoloader to make everything simpler.

Issue #2045923 by drupalrv, tim.plunkett: Replace all module_invoke_all() deprecated function calls in procedural code.

Issue #2017769 by pplantinga, clemens.tolboom, elachlan, katbailey, longwave: Fixed Links from update_helpful_links() should point to site root and not to update.php.