#211979 by theborg, chx, pwolanin: menu items moved out of the navigation menu were not found as parents

#117748 by webchick, Pancho, Rob Loach, pwolanin: required field values were not properly trim()ed on validation

#216515 by chx and myself: cached forms made all subsequent forms on the page cached (critical); and a comment op check was buggy

#218054 by pukku, Arancaytar: precision and scale arguments were not in proper order in SQL generation (critical)

#215858 by pwolanin: localized menu options were saved into the database, avoid this by using different variable names / array keys

#216042 by Eaton: provide the complete form to element validators as well (critical regression for CCK)

#215127 by chx, webernet, catch; testing by theborg: menu item parenting was broken when moving menu items

#215252 by bdragon: reset the cache flush variable before the cache is flushed, so busy sites will not attempt multiple cache flushes at a time

#210219 by htalvitie, yched: initialize block caching properties properly on install (and update bugos RC2 sites as well)

#207330 by c960657: allow custom URL rewriter to work on base_url and fix urlencoding of front page URL with a path prefix

#172571 by fgm, slightly modified: document that theme_xml_icon() was superceded in most cases by theme_feed_icon()

#212126 report by salvis, patch by myself: allow clearing of drupal_html_to_text() URL list, so it can be used multiple times on the page

#204411 by catch: elevate MySQL requirements to 4.1.1 (the first production MySQL 4.1.x was 4.1.5 anyway)

#208768 by dvessel, Arancaytar: language direction should be in the HTML source, so it is more accessible even without CSS

#194494 by Jax, slightly expanded: unify empty password handling is MySQL and MySQLi installer and runtime drivers