Issue #2849669 by alexpott, pwolanin, Munavijayalakshmi, dawehner: Fix \Drupal\Component\Utility\Unicode() because of the Symfony mbstring polyfill

Issue #2776975 by joelpittet, dawehner, tim.plunkett, xjm, pfrenssen: March 3, 2017: Convert core to array syntax coding standards for Drupal 8.3.x RC phase

Issue #2665992 by alexpott, klausi, heykarthikwithu, xjm, tstoeckler: @file is not required for classes, interfaces and traits

Issue #2481731 by larowlan: Cannot inject DBLog instances into forms - The database connection is not serializable

Issue #2457887 by prateekMehta, stefan.r, rpayanm, alexpott: Use Utility\SafeMarkup class instead of Utility\String for placeholder(), checkPlain(),format() functions

Issue #1289536 by ParisLiakos, RobLoach, Crell, larowlan, fgm, pounard, Pancho, dawehner, scor, tim.plunkett, alexpott, socketwench: Switch Watchdog to a PSR-3 logging framework.

Revert "Issue #1289536 by RobLoach, Crell, Pancho, pounard, socketwench, fgm, dawehner, scor, tim.plunkett, larowlan, ParisLiakos: Switch Watchdog to a PSR-3 logging framework."

This reverts commit ef250ba2.

Issue #1289536 by RobLoach, Crell, Pancho, pounard, socketwench, fgm, dawehner, scor, tim.plunkett, larowlan, ParisLiakos: Switch Watchdog to a PSR-3 logging framework.