- Patch #502190 by jhodgdon, stella, sun: hook implementation headers out of compliance with standards.

- Patch #306151 by agentrickard, David_Rothstein, Dave Reid, dbabbage, moshe weitzman: automatically install/uninstall schema.

#561970 by Davy Van Den Bremt: Rename 'box' to 'custom block'. Here's to core's database schema making sense.

- Patch #453254 by Pasqualle, Gábor Hojtsy: re-introduce per-content type visibility to block settings.

- Patch #428744 by Gabor: make the main page content a real block and clean up some of the content API.

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

- Patch #335086 by recidive: rename node, filter and comment module tables to singular for consistency.  Oh my.

- Patch #331570 by recidive: rename block module tables to singular.  Requires you to run update.php.

- Patch #245504 by catch, David_Rothstein, Freso, et al: removed the throttle module from Drupal core.

- Patch #164532 by catch, pwolanin, David Strauss, et al.: improve table indicies for common queries.

#80963 by chx with multiple contributors: remove deletion and database lock based block rehash code, replace it with simpler updates

#184867 by deekayen, catch and keith.smith: fix some spelling errors in our source code and messages printed