- Patch #30984 by webchick, keith.smith, kkaefer, Crell et al: provide descriptions for permissions on the permission administration page.

#198856 by hswong3i: Fix some incorrect use of %s for table name escaping, implement better security checks

- Patch #204900 by webernet: code style fixes.  Likely my last patch of the year.  Fiew.  Thanks all, and see you on the other side.  :)

#202425 by keith.smith: standardize reference to block placement page as 'blocks administration page' to avoid any confusion

#200069 by keith.smith: new standard for 'more information' links in module help texts, as the handbook we referred to before was renamed

- Patch #163191 by hswong3i: removed db_num_rows() for compatibility with Oracle and DB2.  Also a performance improvement.

  unanimously agreed to rollback the deletion API.  We all support the
  features this patch added, yet not its actual design and implementation.
  After some talk, we decided that it would be better for Drupal -- in the
  long term -- not to go with a solution that isn't 100%. We also recognize
  that in the short term, this patch would have been useful addition. So
  let's figure out how we can implement this properly in D7.

#154064 by pwolanin: get hook_help() up to speed to menu changes, allowing router path based lookups, and also full path argument lookup with a passed argument array

- Patch #34755 by chx et al: faster menu system.  HEAD is temporary broken and there is no upgrade path yet.

- Patch #92992 by webchick and neclimdul: clean up documentation that is superseded by the new 'by module' administration dashboard.

  Restores the old node API.

  the most important 404s and 403s.  This makes the watchdog data easier to
  use.  Improved consistency of the 'amdminister > logs' section.

- Patch #77919 by chx, eaton, moshe, et al: enable programmaticaly submitted forms via the pull model.

See: http://drupal.org/node/64279#t-placeholders