- Patch #578520 by sun | c960657, mfb, Dries, catch, mattyoung: make  in url() only accept an array. Another nice API clean-up!

- Patch #11218 by David_Rothstein, sun, quicksketch, duncf, awood456, dropcube, mgifford | pwolanin, dww, RobRoy, Crell, webchick, beginner, ray007, bjaspan, chx, Gábor Hojtsy, Steven, Dries, lutegrass, sym, guardian, matt2000, geerlingguy, SeanBannister, matt westgate, com2, praseodym: allow default text formats per role, and integrate text format permissions.

#578470 by Dries, jbrauer, Gábor Hojtsy: Add return status codes to drupal_http_request() when a URL fails to parse, instead of failing silently.

- Patch by #565496 by dropcube, pwolanin: changed Allow dynamic attaching of other types of stuff to render() structures.

- Patch by #1577 by chx, boombatower, Bèr Kessels, kkaefer: made SSL support a bit easier by providing two cookies and ... hook_goto_alter.

#505084 by Rob Loach: Added an #attached_library() FAPI property for drupal_add_library(), for consistency with #attached_css and #attached_js.

- Patch #552958 by Gábor Hojtsy: create 'regional and language' section in 'configuration and modules'.

#517814 by jmstacey, justinrandell, pwolanin, drewish, Jody Lynn, aaron, dopry, and c960657: Converted File API to stream wrappers, for enhanced private/public file handling, and the ability to reference other storage mechanisms such as s3:// and flicker://.

#296324 by R.Muilwijk, kscheirer, and pamelad: Fixed TestingParty08: url() for internal urls need a thorough test.

- Patch #508458 by catch, Gábor Hojtsy, yoroy: created 'Configuration and modules' section so we can start moving over configuration items. Let's see how this goes ...

- Patch #493746 by JohnAlbin, ultimateboy, moshe weitzman: Enhance drupal_attributes() for multiple valued values.

#315100 by Rob Loach, quicksketch, sun, skilip, aaron, et al: Add ability for modules to register JS/CSS libraries.

- Patch #310139 by pwolanin, c960657: drupal_query_string_encode() should not call drupal_urlencode().

#373201 by moshe weitzman, chx, Frando, eaton: Allow renderable array properties to be passed directly to theme functions.

- Patch #156582 by c960657, Damien Tournoud, townxelliot: added support for timeouts to drupal_http_request().

- Patch #464714 by chx, DamZ: speed up the tests by bringing unit tests backt to live.  Unit tests bootstrap faster and have the potential to speed up testing. We'll need help converting tests where possible.

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