- Fixed a number of translation issues.  Patches by Stefan.

- Improvement: some small changes to the user module to ease translation and to make things slightly more consistent.  This should be a better alternative for patch #54.

- Improvement: increase the maxlength of the node title.  This should fix bug #2018 and #2176.

- Improvements: XHTML-ifications.  Patch by GmbH.

- Bugfix: charset fixes/clean-up.  Patch #52 by Al.

- Improvement: renamed some theme functions of the forum module for sake of consistency/readability.  Patch #2 by Kristjan.

- Improvement: usability improvements to the Xtemplate theme.  Patch #3 by Kristjan.

- Improvement: CSS'ified the book module pages.  Patch #3 by Al.  (I simplified the "l
ocation" part.  Al's approach gave you a bit more power but I'm not sure anyone wants
to change that.  Besides, this will change as soon we integrate the menu system so I kept it easy for now.)

- Documentation improvements: improved and updated the block module documentation.  Patch #44 by Al.  We should add some real-life path examples!

- Fixed the "blog it" image size.  Patch #49 by Al.

- Some SQL performance improvements to the forum module.  This should also be more PostgreSQL safe.  Patch by me.

mysql> SELECT n.nid, n.created AS timestamp, u.name AS name, u.uid AS uid FROM forum f, node n LEFT JOIN users u ON n.uid = u.uid WHERE f.tid = 2 AND n.nid = f.nid AND n.type = 'forum' AND n.status = 1 ORDER BY timestamp DESC LIMIT 1, 0;
==> 0.63 sec

changed to:

mysql> SELECT n.nid, n.created AS timestamp, u.name AS name, u.uid AS uid FROM forum f LEFT JOIN node n ON n.nid = f.nid LEFT JOIN users u ON n.uid = u.uid WHERE f.tid = 2 AND n.nid = f.nid AND n.type = 'forum' AND n.status = 1 ORDER BY timestamp DESC LIMIT 1, 0;
==> 0.00 sec

- Fixed various forum module queries such that they work with PostgreSQL.

- WOOOT!  Patch by Al.

- Bugfix: better charset support for non-ISO-8859-1 languages.  Patch 0029.charset.fixes.patch by Al.  Could East Asia test this please.

- Bugfix: made the "moderate" field behave.  Patch 0030.queue.module.help.and.settings.form.patch by Al.

- Documentation: revised a large part of the help texts / documentation!  Al's 0024.* patches.

- Documentation: added a glossary to the help module.  Patch 0025.help.module.glossary.patch by Al and Michael.

- Usability: first step towards unifying the terminology used in the cloud module.  Patch by 0028.site.cloud.rationalize.name.patch Al.

- Usability + CSS improvements: revamped the node form and removed all tables.  Patch 0027.node.form.rewrite.patch by Al.

- CSS improvements: patch 0026.admin.css.small.improvement.patch by Al.

- Updated the MAINTAINERS file.

- Bugfix: renamed the SQL field 'types' to 'nodes' because 'types' is a reserved keyword in MySQL 4.  This fixes critical bug #1618.  Patch by Marco.

  ==> This fix requires to run update.php!

- Bugfix: made sessions work without warnings when register_globals is turned off. The solution is to use $_SESSION instead of session_register().  This fixes critical bug #1797.  Patch by Marco.

- Bugfix: sometimes error messages where being discarded when previewing a node.  Patch by Craig Courtney.

- Bugfix: fixed charset problems.  This fixes critical bug #1549.  Patch '0023.charset.patch' by Al.

- Code improvements: removed some dead code from the comment module.  Patch by Marco.

- Documentation improvements: polished the node module help texts and form descriptions.  Patch '0019.node.module.help.patch' by Al.

- CSS improvements all over the map!  Patch '0021.more.css.patch' by Al.

- GUI improvements: improved the position of Druplicon in the admin menu.  Patch '0020.admin.logo.patch' by Al.

- GUI improvements: new logos for theme Marvin and theme UnConeD.  Logos by Kristjan Jansen.

- GUI improvements: small changes to the output emitted by the profile module.  Suggestions by Steven Wittens.

- GUI improvements: small fixes to Xtemplate.  Patch '0022.xtemplate.css.patch' by Al.

TODO:

- Some modules such as the buddy list module and the annotation module in the contributions repository are also using session_register().  They should be updated.  We should setup a task on Drupal.

- There is code emitting '<div align="right">' which doesn't validate.

- Does our XML feeds validate with the charset changes?

- The forum module's SQL doesn't work properly on PostgreSQL.

- Bugfix: the forum module's "view" function should also call check_output().

- Al's CSS patches.  This commit improves the themability of some core
  components such as lists, form items, removes an ugly hack from the
  archive module and should fix the poll problem (although it doesn't
  Opera/Konqueror).

- Michael Frankowski's excellent help text improvements!

- Updated Drupal to use "on output" filters.  Derived from Gerhard's patch.

- Fixed a typo in the PostgreSQL database scheme.  Patch by Michael Frankowski.

- Fixed a typo in the MSSQL database scheme.  Patch by Michael Frankowski.

- Removed dependency on "register_globals = on"!  Patches by Michael Frankowski.

  Notes:

  + Updated the patches to use $foo["bar"] instead of $foo['bar'].
  + Updated the INSTALL and CHANGELOG files as well.

- Tiny improvement to the "./scripts/code-clean.sh" script.

- Applied  Michael Caerwyn's "%s -> %d" patch.

- Changed all occurences of '%d' to %d as suggested on the mailing list.

- Fixed some PHP "notices".

  "IE has a bug with tables inside divs with width=100%. I see no reason why
  the forum tables should be 100% - they are pretty much naturally padded to
  100% as soon as anyone puts any content in them. Removing them doesn't
  affect functionality and improves layout compatibility on IE."

- Added missing title description.  Patch by Stefan.

- 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.

- The name of a forum node is a "forum topic", not a "discussion forum".

- Added node_admin_settings() to let users set node defaults.
    * Added _nodeapi("conf")
- Modified form_checkbox() to unset options. (Modified the patch from Ax.)
- Removed the _save() hook.
- Fixed a logical flaw in field_get() and field_set() which would break
  moderation.
- Moved some admin menus around and cleaned up some typos.

- Fixed typo: $node->tid -> $node->tid[].

- Theme options patch.  See mailing list.

- Everything is using theme("function") now instead of $theme->function().

- Made it possible to print forum submission guidelines.  Patch by Moshe.

- Added missing t() function.  Patch by Stefan.

- forum: fixed link to new topic
- forum: new topic shows default forum correctly
- forum: first_new is back; the anchor didn't consider multiple pages
- forum: use standard pager, needed some changes/fixes to pager.inc
- forum: some cleanup
- forum: taxonomy hook
- renamed first_new to simply new
- added an optional parameter to pager_query for the count query
- used the optional count param for paging forum topics
- internal change: moving a topic doesn't duplicate the node anymore but just
  changes the forum (term); no change in functionality, and shadow still
  works (suggested by Dries).  This probably also made some queries somewhat
  lighter.
- bug fixed: anonymous users always saw "n (n new)" in the replies column
- updated pager help and moved from _help to phpdoc

- Bugfix: fixed the SQL query in _forum_topics_read to avoid counting shadowed
  topics in forums.  Patch by David.

- Clean URL patch.

- Usability improvement; the drop-down menu showed the first vocabulary in
  the list even though it has not been selected.  Reported by Adam Shand.

- Tidied up the use of check_output().  Might make rendering pages a bit
  snappier (performance improvement).

- Bugfix: user_save() should not be called for anonymous users.  Patch by
  Marco.

- Fixed glitch with the "leave shadow" option.

- Made sure the taxonomy module doesn't display warning/error messages
  when the taxonomy module is disabled.  Reported by kyvinh.

- Improved forum documentation.  Modified version of Kjartan's patch.

TODO:

- Updating a forum topic through the admin interface, results in a
  duplicate (and incomplete) forum topic.  Also note that "Leave
  shadow?" function is annoying; the status of the checkbox is lost
  when clicking preview.  Also, I think it should be disabled be
  default.

- Fixed bug related to recent cache changes.

Applied patch by Natrak:

- page_header() now adds Last-Modified and ETag http headers.
- When running PHP as an Apache module page_header() will check the HTTP
  headers for conditional gets, and will only push the content when it
  fails. (Works for html and xml pages as they are all cached). Note:
  this is a PHP limitation, so until PHP makes it work for other web
  servers this won't work for them.
- Added created field to cache database to hold the timestamp when the
  cache was created.
- Changed cache_get() to return an object with ->data and ->created.
- Update forum and locale modules.