Issue #278425 by andypost, droplet, OnkelTem, chx, c960657, drewish, kotnik, realityloop: Change notice for: Using basename() is not locale safe.

This reverts commit 132aed37.

#1010506 by dww, chx, hgurol: Fixed FileTransfer doesn't properly handle any advanced settings nor the ssh username

#609772 by dww, JacobSingh, ksenzee: Fixed Impossible to extend the FileTransfer class system in contrib

#935036 by bfroehle, dww, int: Exclude '.' and '..' when recursing through directories in update module.

- Patch #348448 by mfb, c960657, marvil07, cdale, jpmckinney: fixed PHP strict warnings when running tests and for PHP 5.3.

#602520 by JacobSingh and dww: Make FileTransfer form have one option for FTP (ftp_extension() preferred).

#517814 by jmstacey, justinrandell, pwolanin, drewish, Jody Lynn, aaron, dopry, and c960657: Converted File API to stream wrappers, for enhanced private/public file handling, and the ability to reference other storage mechanisms such as s3:// and flicker://.

- Patch #395472 by JacobSingh, chx, cwgordon7: more improvements to the file transfer system to pave the path for a plugin manager.  Heroic effort.

- Patch #395472 by chx, dww, cwgordon7, JacobSingh, et al: added different file transport mechanisms to core in preparation of a plugin manager.