- Patch #565288 by bfroehle, anarcat, p.brouwers, aspilicious: cannot install Drupal when Drupal.org is 503 (at Drupalcon!).

- Patch #1265586 by James_Stallings, edmund.kwok: remove bitter tasting 'bile' in core documentation ;).

Issue #1125662 by catch, Gábor Hojtsy, bfroehle: Fixed UpdateTestContribCase fails on sites with contrib modules/themes in the filesystem.

Issue #647964 by jergason, bfroehle, Damien Tournoud, corbacho, Pancho: Fixed Running cron does not check for available updates.

- Patch #843162 by pwolanin, Scott Falconer, Berdir, jhodgdon, a.mikheychik, mtift: creating vocabularies with machine-names 'List' or 'Add' breaks links in taxonomy overview admin area.

Issue #908282 by jbrown, pillarsdotnet: add width and height attributes to increase front-end performance.

#1019834 by bfroehle: Fixed No .info files reported on theme upload when zip created with certain programs

#976328 by bfroehle, dww: Fixed Update manager should not take you out of maintenance mode unless you asked it to

#686060 by Crell, David_Rothstein, dww, yoroy, carlos8f, et al: Fixed Explain that the Update manager only works if you have FTP or SSH access to your server

#997802 by David_Rothstein, dww: Fixed Update manager doesn't allow you to install a project if it finds a single 'broken' module in it

#936490 by dww, fago: Fixed Update module should verify downloaded tarballs and propagate errors correctly

#1005934 by rfw, dww: Fixed UpdateTestUploadCase->testUploadModule() raises an exception during testing with E_STRICT

#915174 by sdboyer, sun: Remove pointless files[] declarations on files that are not declaring classes.

#936490 by dww, tstoeckler, haydeniv, Bojhan: Fixed Update module should verify downloaded tarballs and propagate errors correctly

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

- Patch #700558 by dww: add test to ensure filename extensions are properly merged in the Update manager UI.

#500866 by boombatower, solotandem: Remove t() from assertion messages in SimpleTest, so translators do not get 1000s of bogus strings.