- Patch #7723 by Roderik: added strtolower()s to make PostgreSQL behave like MySQL and to be more 'forgiving' for users logging in on a PostgreSQL powered Drupal site.

- Patch #6129 by Goba: fixed dependencies on search module.

- Patch 6066 by Adrian: PostgreSQL does not return 'affected rows' when doing
  a select statement.  Even though PEAR supports this functionality, it fails
  silently when using PostgreSQL.  We use the db_num_rows() function instead
  to return the amount of rows returned.  (According to Killes, the MySQL
  manual also states that it should not return affected rows on a 'select'
  statement.)

- Patch by Steven: removed redundant permission checks.  These are no longer
  required thanks to the new 404 handling.

- Patch 5592 by Goba: let drupal_map_assoc() rule.  :-)

- Renamed CHANGELOG to CHANGELOG.txt for Windows uses.

  + only adds an optional parameter to url() and l(), so individual links
    can be set to be absolute
  + modifies drupal_goto() to accept the parameters of url() without the
    $absolute parameter, so cleaner invocations can be used
  + rework of some code in node_feed, making it much better to look at
    (the current code uses foreach with an immediate brake to get the first
    key of the associative array, geeeeez)
  + added xml:base to the rss tag generated by node_feed()
  + set all user mail URLs to be absolute
  + fix a small fragmented URL in user.module

See: http://drupal.org/node/view/5741

Patch 5554 by Goba (slightly modified):

  - Modifies _user_mail_text() to automatically override the default
    strings when needed and apply t() on the strings. This lets Drupal translators
    include default messages in translations, and also removes a lot of repeated code.
    Modified the internal $messageid of the approval message from
    welcome_approval_body/subject to approval_body/subject, so automatic variable
    name computation can be done. This does not affect any variable table keys, since
    the change was especially done to keep the variable names...

  - Adds %login_uri and %edit_uri to move away from the concatenation approach used in
    the default messages, thus making those messages visible for the .po extractor

  - Uses direct return in help text generation when no more action need to be taken
    on the help string (the '$output .=' approach was just plain silly looking and
    misleading, since there was no preceding or appended string in $output)

- Small bugfix.

- Batch two with profile module improvements:
   + Reworked the 'account administration' page.
   + Fixed bug in the 'edit account' page.
   + Removed some dead code from the system.module.

   + Tidied up the profile configuration page: grouped form elements.

   + Tidied up the block configuration settings: removed hard-coded
     table.

   + Changed the profile API to return the preferred group name, and
     changed the user module to group settings.  Modules implementing
     the _user hook will need to be udpated.

   + Removed register_form and register_validate for now.

- Removed the 'remember me' feature.  It has been broken for many months.
  When an elegant fix is found, it will reappear.

- Cleanup: modified some context-sensitive help, changed "s to 's, added
  <legend> and <fieldset> tags, used drupal_set_message() to print a
  status message and removed some dead code.

- Patch #5393 by Goba: changes the search hook return value, and requires an array
  containing two elements, the first being the requested title, and the second being
  the result list. Advantages:
    * Cleaner search code in common.inc
    * Po extraction is possible and works fine
    * No hardcoded exceptions for node and comment modules, since any module can
      return results in order of relevance (or another order)

- Removed the 'Page not found' message after the initial install and removed
  some old user module logic to install the initial role IDs.

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

- Bug 5285: fixed broken URLs in user module.  Patch by Stefan.

- Patch 4859: new drupal_unpack() consolidates duplicate code and makes it
  easy to show avatars next to nodes and comments.  Patch by Moshe.  As a
  showcase, maybe Xtemplate should have an option to enable/disable avatars?

- Fixed bug #5074: standarized the user log messages.

- Changed some boxes to fieldsets/lengeds.

- Updated the user login block to validate as XHTML strict: the
  <div class="user-login-block"> is now inside the <form> instead of the
  other way around.

- Simplified the user login block by removing some CSS that was no longer
  needed.  The block module already emits block-related classes and an id.

- First take at improving the user module's code: replaced the custom error
  printing with calls to drupal_set_message().

- Tiny change for sake of consistency: Blocked -> blocked, Active -> active.

- Updated documentation, small bug fix and small improvements to the <label>
  tags.

  To be discussed and investigated: when a form element has no title an empty
  <label> tag will be emitted (eg. "remember me" checkbox).  This doesn't make
  sense but is our best option for now.

- Fixed password field.

- Fixed bug 4667: users with the deleted role are put back in the authenticated
  users pool.

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

- The 'my account' link is already part of the navigation block.

- Committed Gerhard's user hook patch.  Patch 143.

  + removes the lots of pagers and indirect pager themeing
  + add the theme_pager() function, which should be called as
    theme("pager", ...) to get a pager.

- Fixed visual glitch in "Who's online" block.  Patch by Jeremy.

- Made the who's online block adhere better to the max user setting.