Issue #2606392 by er.manojsharma, sdstyles: mark \Drupal\Core\Utility\LinkGeneratorInterface::generatFromLink as internal

Issue #2570355 by Sutharsan, stefan.r, kgoel, josephdpurcell, joelpittet, justAChris, dawehner, pfrenssen, pwolanin, David_Rothstein, catch: Replace remaining !placeholder and @placeholder with :placeholder for URLs

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 #2091901 by longwave, tstoeckler: Fix one-line doc descriptions for UrlGenerator and LinkGeneratorInterface

Issue #1981368 by tim.plunkett, Crell, webchick: Convert all routes to 'module_name().foo_bar()' naming convention.

Issue #2078285 by pwolanin, dawehner: Add short-cut methods to the \Drupal class for generating URLs and links from routes.

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