#304163 by chx: Allow update.php to re-generate settings.php. Now possible to upgrade Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. Oh, yeah.

#330983 follow-up by David Rothenstein: Move rename function later in the process to un-break D6->D7 upgrade path.

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

#363013 by mannkind: Use getwd() rather than realpath(__FILE__) to determine drupal root, so we don't break symlinks.

- Patch #201122 by c960657, Moshe Weitzman: never write anonymous sessions, unless something has been written to . This is an important performance improvements -- as long as you use modules that use  carefully. It might be good to report some analytics about this in the performance settings page so administrators can see if there is a 'broken' module.

- Patch #333143 by justinrandell: cleaning up the Drupal bootstrap code, removing bootstrap flag in system table.

#305653 by Dave Reid, cdale, and snowball43: Fix bug where enabled themes get unmarked during update.php.

- Patch #309821 by Rob Loach: automatically put sites in maintenance mode when updates are being run.

#286035 follow-up by maartenvg: Fix problem with contrib updates not firing unless system update exists.

- Patch #252013 by Eaton, pwolanin, Susurrus et al: drupal_render() now printes #markup, not #value.

- Patch #245115 by kkaefer, John Morahan, JohnAlbin et al: after a long discussion we've decided to make the concatenation operator consistent with the other operators.

#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