- Patch #423888 by mikeryan, Crell, drunken monkey: use subqueries for ->countQuery(), at least for MySQL.

#500866 by boombatower, solotandem: Remove t() from assertion messages in SimpleTest, so translators do not get 1000s of bogus strings.

#851602 by chx, bjaspan, Damien Tournoud: Fixed FieldCrudTestCase::testUpdateField() assumes a fixed-precision storage - replace with test that's portable across database systems.

- Patch #780154 by chx, noahb, dhthwy, pwolanin, aspilicious, jhodgdon, dereine, bjaspan: listing API for field API.

- Patch #629252 by plach, yched: field_attach_form() should make available all field translations on submit.

#331951 by aspilicious, sun, jhodgdon, Morbus, et al: Figure out and apply coding standard for casting.

- Patch #348448 by mfb, c960657, marvil07, cdale, jpmckinney: fixed PHP strict warnings when running tests and for PHP 5.3.

#610072 by boombatower, chx, effulgentsia, and yched: Fixed setUp() function accepting array as arguments.

- Patch #735808 by fago: fix multiple field value form to work with form API persistence. Added tests.

#414424 by sun, chx, Arancaytar, yched, et al: Introduce Form API #type 'text_format' for additional DX/security around rich text fields.

- Patch #332725 by andypost, Damien Tournoud, lilou, Gábor Hojtsy: locale_inc_callback() is a thing of the past.

#645926 by Damien Tournoud and yched: hook_field_storage_details() should be per-field, not per-instance. Allows Views/Field integration to get unblocked.

- Patch #652834 by yched, effulgentsia: changed Field formatters as render arrays to increase performance (and to clean-up the code).

- Patch #601584 by effulgentsia, boombatower, yched: setUp() function for unit and web test cases should reset all resettable statics.

#633156 follow-up by effulgentsia and yched: Clean up AJAX tests, add sister function to drupal_js_encode().

#636834 by yched: Fixed field revision data when user has no 'edit' access on the field (with tests).