- Patch #168028 by dvessler, merlinofchaos, pwolanin et al: both theme functions and templates may need include files. Flush your caches.

#111127 by chx: cache node_load(), so heavy operations loading data from external sources and only invoked once (note that you should do everything dynamic in the view op, not the load op)

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

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

- Patch #166205 by hswong3i: improved database compatibility of db_result().  Makes it work with DB2, Oracle, etc.

#161979 noticed by bboyjay, patch by myself: kill noticedisplayed when no comments were selected for the mass operation

#156910 by asimmonds: fix code indentation problems introduced with new code in this development cycle; only whitespace changes

#146386 by kbahey: refactor 'submitted by user - date' themeing and make it more verbose to translate

  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

  This is a very important patch, but one that is merely an enabler.
  Hopefully we'll see more people submitting "action patches" in the
  near future.

  Thanks for the hard work and persistence, John.  *If* you decide
  to update the Drupal Pro Development book to Drupal 6, make sure
  to add a chapter on actions. ;)

- Patch #149176 by chx, David et al: getting rid of the sequences table, using db_last_insert_id() instead of db_next_id().