Issue #2568977 by alexpott, dawehner, pwolanin, Wim Leers: Replace SafeMarkup::format() in the link generator - it's a bad example to everyone

Issue #2557411 by joelpittet: Remove obsolete reference to SafeMarkup::set() in LinkGeneratorTest documentation

Issue #2551335 by alexpott, Wim Leers: Remove unnecessary SafeMarkup usage in tests and clear the static cache before every run

Issue #2505669 by pwolanin, jcloys, joshi.rohit100, dawehner, Wim Leers, kgoel, larowlan: Inject render service into LinkGenerator instead of calling drupal_render

Revert "Issue #2505669 by pwolanin, jcloys, joshi.rohit100: Inject render service into LinkGenerator instead of calling drupal_render"

This reverts commit 8d848f2d.

Issue #2505669 by pwolanin, jcloys, joshi.rohit100: Inject render service into LinkGenerator instead of calling drupal_render

Issue #2501705 by tetranz, pwolanin, Cottser, joelpittet, akalata: Remove SafeMarkup::set() in LinkGenerator and document SafeMarkup::set() in LinkGeneratorTest

Issue #2491155 by mikeburrelljr, Mac_Weber, opdavies: Update drupal.org and kernel.org URLs in core modules (Follow-up to 2489912)

Issue #2335661 by Wim Leers, pwolanin, dawehner, Fabianx, larowlan, catch, Berdir: Outbound path & route processors must specify cacheability metadata

Issue #2273923 by mpdonadio, pfrenssen, effulgentsia, pcambra, xjm, tim.plunkett, martin107, cilefen: Remove html => TRUE option from l() and link generator

Issue #2420967 by JeroenT, Wim Leers, neclimdul: Write test to ensure that the active class is added on links when on the front page

Issue #2388627 by JeroenT, filijonka, ultimateAnkit, tadityar, rpayanm, adci_contributor: Remove usages of drupal_is_front_page

Issue #2331685 by pfrenssen, jibran, larowlan, cilefen: PHPUnit deprecated assertTag(), assertNotTag() and assertSelectEquals()

Revert "Issue #2273923 by mpdonadio, pfrenssen, dawehner, xjm, cilefen: Remove html => TRUE option from l() and link generator"

This reverts commit 0bcabf50.

Issue #2273923 by mpdonadio, pfrenssen, dawehner, xjm, cilefen: Remove html => TRUE option from l() and link generator

Issue #2328919 by Mile23, YesCT, tim.plunkett: Remove () from a bunch of @covers definitions in PHPUnit

Issue #2343759 by pwolanin, larowlan, dawehner, tim.plunkett, effulgentsia, xjm, Wim Leers: Provide an API function to replace url()/l() for external urls.

Issue #2277103 by tim.plunkett, pwolanin, Wim Leers, dawehner, hotpizzas: Switch Drupal::l() and LinkGenerator to expect a Url object.

Issue #697760 by sun: Replace getInfo() in tests with native phpDoc + annotations (following PHPUnit).

Issue #2266377 by dawehner, bkosborne, pwolanin: Speed up UrlGenerator a little by setting the 'external' option in the Url object  .

Issue #2265913 by pwolanin: LinkGenerator::generateFromUrl() fatal (uncaught exception) with external URL.

Issue #2054011 by amateescu, pwolanin, dawehner, YesCT, tim.plunkett, blueminds, Berdir, das-peter, effulgentsia: Implement built-in support for internal URLs.

Issue #1979468 by Wim Leers, nod_, pwolanin, longwave, thedavidmeister, jessebeach, larowlan | catch: .active from linkGenerator(), l() and theme_links() forces an upper limit of per-page caching for all content containing links.

Issue #1862202 by plach, Berdir, katbailey, ParisLiakos, alexpott, chx, sun, larowlan, Gábor Hojtsy, cosmicdreams, vijaycs85, YesCT, penyaskito, andypost, Albert Volkman, joelpitett: Objectify the language system.

Revert "Issue #1979468 by Wim Leers, pwolanin, nod_, thedavidmeister, larowlan: .active from linkGenerator(), l() and theme_links() forces an upper limit of per-page caching for all content containing links."

This reverts commit 624296e7.

Issue #1979468 by Wim Leers, pwolanin, nod_, thedavidmeister, larowlan: .active from linkGenerator(), l() and theme_links() forces an upper limit of per-page caching for all content containing links.

Issue #2084125 by pwolanin: Fixed Bug in active detection in LinkGenerator - need to extract array from _raw_variables() ParameterBag.

Issue #2047619 by dawehner, pwolanin, tstoeckler, thedavidmeister: Add a link generator service for route-based links.