Issue #771448 by Damien Tournoud, attiks: Changed Use proc_open() instead of pcntl_fork() in simpletest.

- Patch #1110810 by JohnAlbin, TR: CVS $ tag lurks in .htaccess file (and other dank corners of Drupal).

- Patch #602332 by Steven Jones, pwolanin, Steven Merrill: XML output option for use with Hudson / JUnit.

#706842 by bangpound, bjaspan, Damien Tournoud, chx, aaronbauman: Fixed 'taxo as field' update broken + wipes some node/term associations .

#838438 follow-up by Damien Tournoud: db_prefix is no longer a global, wrong path given to drupal_var_export() function file.

#838438 by Damien Tournoud, chx: Added basic tests for D6 => D7 upgrade path, and framework for further extending upgrade test coverage. W00t! :D

#679890 follow-up by Bojhan, aspilicious, and agentrickard: Remove more extraneous 'Please' in the interface.

#606526 by axyjo and scor: Remove trailing whitespace and add newlines at end of files. Sorry, folks! But it is after code freeze. :)

#517814 by jmstacey, justinrandell, pwolanin, drewish, Jody Lynn, aaron, dopry, and c960657: Converted File API to stream wrappers, for enhanced private/public file handling, and the ability to reference other storage mechanisms such as s3:// and flicker://.

#193383 by TheRec, JirkaRybka, and Bart Jansens: Centralize calls to set_time_limit() and prevent warnings/errors.

#376129 by boombatower, Damien Tournoud, and chx: Change getInfo() to a static method to reduce memory footprint of SimpleTest.

#330983 by recidive and boombatower: Rename users/users_roles tables to user/user_role for consistency.