- Patch #855418 by jhodgdon, aspilicious: fix doc errors in xmlcpr.inc and fill in the missing doc headers.

#331951 by aspilicious, sun, jhodgdon, Morbus, et al: Figure out and apply coding standard for casting.

- Patch #265973 by Damien Tournoud, mr.baileys, dixon_, clemens.tolboom: XML-RPC chokes with long server response.

#497118 by chx, catch, pwolanin, JoshuaRogers, and Jacob Singh: Remove the function registry. While the hope was that this would result in improved performance for low-end hosts, it comes at the expense of critical development experience problems and less benefit than something like APC. Class registry remains intact to facilitate autoloading.

Of all the patches to accidentally commit without a message. :( Rolling back registry rip. Let's try that again.

- Patch #245115 by kkaefer, John Morahan, JohnAlbin et al: after a long discussion we've decided to make the concatenation operator consistent with the other operators.

- Patch #204900 by webernet: code style fixes.  Likely my last patch of the year.  Fiew.  Thanks all, and see you on the other side.  :)

#196535 by sun, chx, dww: check whether Drupal can issue HTTP requests at all, so we know that this is the cause of problems, not the remote host not responding.

 - whitespaces at end of lines
 - indentation
 - control structure usage
 - whitespace in empty lines
 - phpdoc comment formatting

- Patch #137138 by jvandyk: fixed problem with drupal_http_request() not setting the proper error code when a network effect occurs.  Causes the XML-RPC backend to fail.