- Renamed 'visit' to 'view'.

  We added a 'severity' column to watchdog():
    watchdog($type, $message, $link) --> watchdog($type, $message, $severity, $link);

    * Specify a severity in case you are reporting a warning or error.
    * The $link-parameter is now the fourth parameter instead of the third.

  TODO: document this in the upgrade guide.

   * Less logic in theme code.
   * Encourages use of the menu system.
   * Easier to find where a title or breadcrumb comes from in other people's code because there are less places to look. Look in menu and then grep for the appropriate set function. Looking for calls to theme_page() is hard because there are too many of them.
   * Very slightly more efficient.

- Modified patch #6475 by Killes: sites -> drupalsites -> drupal-sites

- Fixed typo and reworded the filter.

  changes are:

  1. Simplified the statistics pages: there are less pages and on the
     remaining pages there is a lot less visual clutter (less columns and
     better presentation).

  2. Reorganized the 'administer - logs' menu: flattened the menu structure
     and removed a number of links.

  3. Improved performance.  Most statistics pages used about 160 slow SQL
     queries which made the statistics pages fairly unusable on my system.
     The new pages use at least 10 times less SQL queries and render much
     faster.  They are actually usable.

  4. There is now a 'track'-tab on node pages, and a second subtrab on the
     user accounts 'track'-tab for people with the 'access statistics'
     permission.  They can be used to resp. track the node and the user.
     This makes the statistics more accessible.

  5. Changed the way watchdog messages are filtered.  This makes it easier
     to introduce new watchdog types.

  6. Reworked the statistics module's permissions.

  7. Less code: 223 insertions(+), 343 deletions(-).

  8. Fixed several glitches: for example, the statistics pages sorted the
     'Name' column by user ID instead of by name.  Unfortunately, it is
     too difficult to backport these to DRUPAL-4-5.

  TODO:

  1. Review the statistics modules help pages.

  2. Help fine-tune the interfaces/views.

  NOTES:

  1. You'll want to run update.php.

- Patch #11728 by Uwe Hermann: fixed some typos in the code comments, Doxygen documentation and screen output.

  Uwe: I dropped the 'iff' chunks as 'iff' stands for 'if and only if'.

- Patch #8179 by JonBob: reintroduced menu caching.

Tiny change to drupal_directory_page() in drupal.module to allow the site list to be sorted on any column (alphabetical is prone to abuse by prefixing the site name with quotes, dashes, hash, ...).

- Patch by JonBob: for consistency and readability, add brief descriptions of each source file inside the @file comment block at the head of the file. This helps with Doxygen indexing, and also allows neophytes to see what a file does immediately on opening the source, regardless of the organization of the hooks.

- Code improvements by Stefan: made all status messages consistent (and easier to translate).

- Patch #7458: bugfix: reverted the conditional inclusion of xmlrpc.inc.

- Added missing quotes around 'name'.  Spotted by James.

- Patch #7458 by killes: conditionally include xmlrpc.inc.

- Patch by Steven and me: refactored the form handling of nodes. The node system is now using form_set_error() and friends like the rest of Drupal does. This makes for both a consistent user experience and consistent code. It simplifies the forms and validation code, however, it does change the node API slightly:

    * The _validate hook and the _nodeapi('validate') hook of the node API (1) no longer take an 'error' parameter and (2) should no longer return an error array. To set an error, call form_set_error().

    * The _form hook of the node module no longer takes a form hook and should not worry about displaying errors. Ditto for _nodeapi('form_post') and _nodeapi('form_pre').

Tabs patch!

CHANGES
-------

 + Introduced tabs. First, we extended the menu system to support tabs. Next, a tab was added for every link that was (1) an administrative action other than the implicit 'view' (2) relevant to that particular page only. This is illustrated by the fact that all tabs are verbs and that clicking a page's tab leads you to a subpage of that page.

 + Flattened the administration menu. The tabs helped simplify the navigation menu as I could separate 'actions' from 'navigation'. In addition, I removed the 'administer > configuration'-menu, renamed 'blocks' to 'sidebars' which I hope is a bit more descriptive, and made a couple more changes. Earlier, we already renamed 'taxonomy' to 'categorization' and we move 'statistics' under 'logs'.

 + Grouped settings. All settings have been grouped under 'administer > settings'.

TODO
----

 + Update core themes: only Xtemplate default supports tabs and even those look ugly.  Need help.

 + Update contributed modules.  The menu() hook changed drastically.  Updating your code adhere the new menu() function should be 90% of the work.  Moreover, ensure that your modue's admin links are still valid and that URLs to node get updated to the new scheme ('node/view/x' -> 'node/x').

- Added support for 403 handling.  Patch by JonBob.  As a side benefit,
  administrators will be able to define a custom 403 page, just as they
  can define 404 pages now.

  This needs to be documented in the "Changes since / migrating to ..."
  pages.

- Rewrote the profile module:

   + Added a 'created' field to the users table and renamed the 'timestamp'
     fied to 'changed' (cfr. node table).  Update.php will try to determine
     a 'created' timestamp for existing users.

   + The profile module no longer uses serialized data but has its own set
     of tables.  Known existing profile data is migrated by these new tables.
       TODO: migrate the birthday field.

   + The profile fields can be grouped, and within each group, profile fields
     can be sorted using weights.

   + The profile pages can be themed.

   + The profiles can be browsed based on certain properties/settings.

   + Change the _user hook: (i) 'private_view' and 'public_view' are merged
     into 'view' as there are no private fields and (ii) 'edit_form' has
     been renamed to 'edit'.

   + Avatar handling has been refactored and is now part of the user module.
     The users table has a dedicted 'picture' field.

   + Simplified the way themes should use display/visualize pictures or
     avatars.

   + Made it possible for administrators to replace or delete avatars.

   + ...

  I hope this make for a good base to build on collectively.

- Patch #6110 by Goba: stop cheating in the Drupal site list.

Patch 5287 by Stefan: multiline help texts should become inside a single $output.

- Many excellent news aggregator improvements by Kjartan:
    + Added drupal_http_request().
    + Replaced rssfeeds with OPML feed subscription list.
    + Added support for pubDate.
    + Added support for conditional gets using ETag and Last-Modified.

Added checks to the drupal directory option to display an error when the site name, email, slogan or statement aren't filled in.

- Removed the hard-coded list of watchdog types.  The list is compiled
  dynamically and can be extended through the watchdog() call.  (Chris
  could use it to move the cron message to their own category.)

 - put text directly into t(), which also means that multipart help text becomes
   a multiline string
 - use modern XHTML tagging, no <b> and <i>
 - put links and URLs out of the translated text where appropriate
 - let referred menu items and form elements get the same name as in the menu /
   form, so only one translation would be needed
 - use %variable instead of $variable when variables need to go into the string
 - add translation to form items previously untranslated
 - use example.com in example URLs

- Updated the calls to menu() to use MENU_HIDE instead of 1

- Committed phase 4 of JonBob's menu system changes.

- Committed phase 3 of JonBob's menu changes.  Adds an API for modules to
  define titles and breadcrumbs for their pages, and updates the theme
  system to display them.

- Patch by JonBob:

  Phase 2 of the menu system integration project. This unifies the interface
  used by admin and non-admin pages, and deprecates the _page hook in favor of
  explicit callbacks from menu(). Breadcrumbs, titles, and help text go away
  as a result of this patch; they will return in the phase 3 patch, printed
  by the theme.