Issue #784864 by Niklas Fiekas, kbgordon7, rdrh555, lisarex: Link in update.php instructions was pointing to an outdated handbook page. Update it.

Issue #977174 by AlexisWilke: Fix minor HTML validity issue in update.php when generating list of results

#767408 by hunmonk: copy semaphore site creation to update_fix_d6_requirements() to solve issues upgrading from any version of Drupal 5

#208602 follow up by myself and webernet: invert conditional to properly update schema versions, when needed

#208602 by KarenS: add support for aborting all updates of one module, when a critical error happens

#200674 by scor, catch: update.php should inform users if their memory limit will possibly result in a WSOD

#199946 by JirkaRybka: append a short query string to CSS and JS files, changing on upgrades, so on core/module/theme upgrades, browser caches will 'flush'

#197722 by catch, hwsong3i: remove 4.7 to 5.x updates; we only support direct updates from 5.x to 6.x

#196630 by yched: postpone warning message display until batch finished, so messages are not forgotten on non-JS batches

#199336 by JirkaRybka: remove improper t() use in update code (update goes all in English, but there were some mistakes), and add messages to updates where there was no return value otherwise, so users know what happens in each update

#194310 by chx, catch, KarenS: run updates for disabled but previously installed modules, if they are compatible with the current system

#200271 by catch: more old 4.6 to 4.7 update path functions removed, as we don't support direct upgrades from 4.6 to 6.x definitely

 - whitespaces at end of lines
 - indentation
 - control structure usage
 - whitespace in empty lines
 - phpdoc comment formatting

#141727 by merlinofchaos, dvessel, sun: restore themeability support for maintenance pages (regression)

- Patch #179143 by Gabor, JirkaRybka, chx, ChrisKennedy, et al: do not fire bootstrap hooks during update.

#181758 by webernet: move cache_block creation to update_fix_d6_requirements() to avoid warnings about the nonexistent table through the update process

#176805 by dww: conditional linking to dblog pages in update.php, so if the module is not enabled, we don't get broken links

#162432 by bjaspan and chx: serial columns need their keys defined in db_change_field() and friends in MySQL

#171646 by JirkaRybka: store version usage information for every source string, optimize caching and prune the initially unused strings

#170638 by JirkaRybka and chx: move update access variable to settings.php, so we can check whether it is wide open, and we have one place for settings

#154949 by Crell and dww: let modules and themes specify a minimum required PHP version, under which they will not be possible to be turned on

- Patch #146910 by dww: only allow enabling modules with the same Drupal core compatibility version.