- Committed a slightly modified version of Slavica's table prefix patch.

- All LIMIT queries must go through the pager or through db_query_range().
  The syntax for db_query_range() was enhanced so it matches db_query(). So
  you may pass extra arguments of the SQL statement which are checked via
  check_query() and then substituted into the SQL statement. After these
  optional arguments, you always pass $from and $count parameters which
  define your range.  Most often, the $from is 0 and the count is the max
  number of records you want returned.  Patch by Moshe.

- The pager_query() function for PEAR was enhanced so that it adds  proper
  GROUP BY statement counting the number of records to be paged. Patch by
  James Arthur.

- MSSQL database scheme by Moshe.

- New menu houskeeping.  Prototyped by Zbynek.

  The following modules need updating:
    * glossary module
    * feed module (Breyten's version)
    * mailhandler module
    * notify module
    * project module
    * smileys module
    * admin module
    * style module
    * taxonomy_dhtml module

  To avoid unexpected problems menu_add() is deprecated (it will print an
  error message when used) and menu() should be used instead.

- Documented the fact that the $base_url should not have a trailing slash.
  Requested by Kjartan.

- Fixed at least 3 typos.

- Clean URLs.

- Clean URL patch.

- Removed some backslashes.  Reported by Adam.

o Permission improvements:

   + Removed the "post content" permission and replaced it by more fine-grained permissions such as "maintain static pages", "maintain personal blog", "maintain stories", etc.

o Usability improvements to teasers:

   + Teaser forms are no more.  Teasers are extracted automatically but can also be instructed using a delimiter "---".  Furthermore, when a post it too short for a teaser, the user won't be bother with teaser stuff anymore.

   + Added an option to set the teaser length, or to disable teasers all together.

   + When previewing a post, both the short (if any) and the full version of a post are shown.  This addresses a common complaint; for example, when writing a book page there was no way you could preview the short version of your post.

   + Forum posts can be teasered now.  This is particularly helpful in the context of drupal.org where we promote forum topics.

o Bugfix: replaced all PHP short tags (<?) with long tags (<?php).

o Bugfix: removed hard-coded dependence on comment module.

o Bugfix: when the queue module was disabled, it was not possible to approve updated book pages.

o Bugfix: applied modified version of Marco's node_teaser() fix.

- Made sure session.cache_limiter is set to "none" as suggested by Moshe
  and Ax.

- Added "short_open_tag 1" to the PHP settings.

- Added some extra information about PHP settings.

- Added some comments/explanation wrt to the "$db_url" settings; this seemed
  to cause problems/confusion.

Committing Changes by Moshe Weitzman:
- admin_user_account(), user_edit(), and user_view() no longer have any
  hard code for authentication modules. instead authentication modules
  implement the _user hook.
- fixed a couple 'help' typos.
- linked the 'REGISTER' text in the login block to the register page.
  this page now advertises DA better if site employs DA.
- admins may now edit everything about a user account (was a feature
  request).
- user #1 may now login immediately, in addition to receiving his
  password via email.

Other changes:
- modules and themes are now enabled/disabled in the administrative /
  settings / modules | themes pages. Requires SQL update and things must
  be enabled before your site returns to normal. TODO: enable all
  functionality. (For now just do UPDATE system SET status = 1;)
- removed $themes from conf.php.
- added a $theme->system() function where theme can specify settings.
  All themes in the Drupal CVS have been updated to use this.
- added _system hook to modules. TODO: update modules to use this.
- changed strange use of sprintf to the usual strtr. The disadvantage of
  sprintf is that it requires translations to keep the string order,
  which may not be possible in all languages.
- an invalid/nonexisting theme in a user profile will now fallback to the
  BaseTheme instead of crashing.

  login and one for user information.
- added link to help in book module (post-patch, see below).
- applied various patches:
  Patch by Greg Tyrelle <greg@tyrelle.net>
  - tracker module now shows usernames next to comments.

  Patch by Moshe Weitzman <moshe@wallaware.com>
  - book module has a more complete help.
  - added administrative link to export book to html
  - fixed non book nodes not showing up in trees.

  Patch by moshe weitzman <weitzman@tejasa.com>
  - links can be defined in the configuration file.

- Removed theme Trillian from the $themes-array.

- A large batch of updates, amongst them a rewritten node system.  More
  information available on the mailing list.

- Added an ini_set(...) to conf.php to solve history/cache browsing issues
  on some Drupal/PHP installations.

  easier. Also changed the <? tag to <?php in some cases.

- PEAR-ification of Drupal by claw: you can now host Drupal on a wide
  range of databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, and others.

  For additional information and an 'how to upgrade', check the mails
  sent to the mailing list.

- added a comment() function to the base theme: you don't have to overload
  it in your custom themes

- moved 'theme_account()' to the base theme as '$theme->user()' so that it
  can be themed.

- removed the themes that are not actively maintained ...

- a batch of updates, including some experimental changes to the moderation
  of comments and nodes.

- Added the new user module!

- Removed the confusing comment as suggested by Jared.

- Redid settings.module and even renamed it to conf.module.
    * Settings are now grouped in basic categories like "system
      settings", "module settings" and "filters".
  * Added new settings to make Drupal easier to configure and
  to make some aspects like the watchdog scale better.

- Renamed includes/settings.php to includes/conf.php.

- Added filter support to conf.module and introduced filter hooks so
  modules can implement and export new filters.  Example filters are
  an HTML filter (implemented), a profanity filter, an url converter,
  ASCII smileys to images filter and so on ...

- Reworked the check_* functions: user contributed content/input is
  only verified and filtered once in its lifespan.

NOTES

- Altough this is a large commit, no database changes are required.

- Created 2 new functions:
    + path_uri(): returns the fully-qualified URI of your drupal site.
    + path_img(): returns the image directory or http://image-server.com/
                  in case you prefer to load-balance bandwidth usage.

  Replaced all occurences of the variable "site_url" with path_uri()
  and removed "site_url" from "setting.module".

- Drastically simplified the node_save() API, which should make the
  node-forms more secure.  Updated "story.module", "book.module",
  "forum.module", "page.module" and "node.module" to reflect this
  change.  This is needs more testing so hit it, beat it, tease it.

- Fixed an occasional glitch in the configuration file loading logic.

- Made "queue.module" display an informative notice when an anonymous
  user tries accessing the moderation queue.

- Updated the hard-coded information in drupal.module a bit.

- Fixed typo: "$language" should have been "$languages".

- Renamed "hostname.conf" to "setting.php" (cfr. "setting.module").
  Note that - when upgrading - you have to rename all your existing
  configuration files to reflect this change:

     yourdomain.com.conf -> yourdomain.com.php

  By default, i.e. if no configuration file is found, setting.php
  will be used instead.  Using the ".php"-extension will fix most
  configuration/security issues with .htaccess-files ...

- Removed some dead code from forum.module.

- Modified conf_init() to use default.conf if nothing else can be found.
- Added some comments to hostname.conf to reflect the changes and
  provide more information on how to rename the file.

TODO
- The Drupal handbook should be updated once the CVS version is released.
- Should try to remove the remainder of info from hostname.conf and go for a
  completely web-based administration if possible.
- Does having all the settings in a SQL database make Drupal add more
  overhead than including a .conf file? If nobody knows for sure some tests
  should be done. If yes, concider having the admin interface generate an
  include file in addition to saving to the database.

A lot of small changes (search-n-replace) make a big commit:

  - fixed update bug in book.module
  - provide a log message when both adding and updating book pages
  - all configurable variables are now accessed through "variable_get()":
  - rewrote watchdog and submission throttle and removed watchdog.inc
  - improved robustness of sections.inc
  - imporved story.module
  - updated ./database/database.sql

- a bunch of various updates

- fixed typo in hostname.conf

Flushing my backlog (in case Natrak wants to make more changes):

 - tidied up some of the code
 - fixed a small problems

- small improvements as well as 2 bugfixes

- refactoring, refactoring, refactoring

- large commit of everything else that has been queued in my backlog:
  it's not 100% stable yet