Issue #2283637 by pfrenssen, dawehner, shivanshuag, znerol: Provide test coverage to prove that an AuthenticationProvider can initiate a session

Issue #2472323 by dawehner, neclimdul, Crell, kim.pepper, nod_, Wim Leers, larowlan, jibran, pwolanin, catch: Move modal / dialog to query parameters

Issue #2464283 by jeqq: Restore Simpletest's batch after modules installation in WebTestBase::setUp()

Issue #2395143 by amateescu, Fabianx, Berdir, beejeebus, dashaforbes, alexpott, larowlan, znerol, dawehner, catch, neclimdul, yched, fgm, effulgentsia: YAML parsing is very slow, cache it with FileCache

Issue #2474909 by alexpott, mpdonadio, znerol, catch, Wim Leers, Berdir: Allow Simpletest to use the same APC user cache prefix so that tests can share the classmap and other cache objects

Issue #2322195 by rpayanm, nlisgo, cilefen, balagan, LinL, akashjain132, filijonka, epari.siva, Tebro, Temoor, pcambra, unstatu, Poornima3, Shivam Agarwal, abhi170893, Dom., PieterJanPut, Mile23, JeroenT, disasm: Replace all instances of user_load(), user_load_multiple(), entity_load('user') and entity_load_multiple('user') with static method calls

Revert "Issue #2395143 by amateescu, Fabianx, Berdir, beejeebus, dashaforbes, larowlan, dawehner, catch, alexpott, neclimdul, yched, znerol, fgm, effulgentsia: YAML parsing is very slow, cache it with FileCache"

This reverts commit 4192117d.

Issue #2395143 by amateescu, Fabianx, Berdir, beejeebus, dashaforbes, larowlan, dawehner, catch, alexpott, neclimdul, yched, znerol, fgm, effulgentsia: YAML parsing is very slow, cache it with FileCache

Issue #2467101 by neclimdul: Fix DialogTest outside apache/mod_php: don't send multiple Accept request headers

Issue #2467887 by joshi.rohit100: Rename drupalGetAJAX to drupalGetAjax for parity with drupalPostAjaxForm

Issue #2226621 by JeroenT, ianthomas_uk, lokapujya, pjonckiere, marcingy, LinL, Xano, rpayanm, piyuesh23: Remove usage of element_info(), element_child() and element_children(). Deprecate element_info_property()

Issue #2453341 by Wim Leers: Contact forms don't have necessary cache contexts & tags; flood control should work on validate, not on view

Issue #2457781 by prateekMehta, stefan.r, AjitS, hussainweb: Use Utility\Html class instead of Utility\String for decodeEntities() function

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

Issue #2433595 by chx, Berdir: WebTestBase::refreshVariables only resets cache_tags.invalidator.checksum

Issue #2322639 by hussainweb, LinL, Temoor, oenie, MKorostoff, mglaman, kyuubi, unstatu, omers, pcambra, legolasbo, benjy, JeroenT: Replace all instances of node_type_load(), node_type_get_types(), entity_load('node_type') and entity_load_multiple('node_type') with static method calls from DRUPAL SOUTH WOOOO!

Issue #2407765 by Wim Leers, borisson_: Wherever simple config is used to render output to end user, associate their cache tags

Issue #2363341 by tim.plunkett, donquixote, adci_contributor: Throw exception in Drupal::service() and friends, if container not initialized yet

Issue #2050759 by tim.plunkett, fietserwin: Move drupal_chmod and other code in file.inc to a Drupal\Core\File\FileSystem class

Issue #2364157 by mpdonadio, dawehner, martin107, Berdir, pcambra, naveenvalecha, tim.plunkett: Replace most existing _url calls with Url objects

Issue #2368797 by Wim Leers, dawehner, rteijeiro: Optimize ajaxPageState to keep Drupal 8 sites fast on high-latency networks, prevent CSS/JS aggregation from taking down sites and use HTTP GET for AJAX requests

Issue #2350837 by dawehner, Berdir, larowlan, Wim Leers: Convert most usages of EntityInterface::getSystemPath() to use routes

Issue #2392319 by alexpott, effulgentsia: Config objects (but not config entities) should by default be immutable

Issue #2347877 by znerol, Berdir: Move DrupalKernel::initializeCookieGlobals() into a SessionConfiguration service

Issue #2382195 by tibbsa, subhojit777, tadityar, cilefen, Mile23: Clean-up simpletest module test members - ensure property definition and use of camelCase naming convention