- 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.

- Patch #300993 by sun: extended the roles and permissions API so we can revoke permissions from a role etc.

#509398 by adrian: Turned install profiles into modules with full access to the Drupal API. Almost all WTFs/minute now removed from install profiles. Woohoo! :D

- Patch #524728 by David_Rothstein, JoshuaRogers, JacobSingh et al: refactor install.php to allow Drupal to be installed from the command line.

Roll-back of #503982 which caused test failures. One day, I will learn that not even a *one word* patch is immune from causing test failures.

- Patch #413192 by catch et al: make taxonomy terms fieldable (not to be confused with taxonomy terms as fields).

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

- Patch #273137 by pwolanin, David_Rothstein, chx, et al: split navigation to user and administration menu. Will require follow-up patches.

- Patch #394374 by cwgordon7, wretched sinner, et al: improved language of comment status. Usability improvement based on testing in Baltimore.

- Patch #288039 by sun, ff1, agentrickard, fgm, ultimateboy: improved usability of the aliased URL admin page.

- Patch #225450 by Crell, chx, bjaspan, catch, swentel, recidive et al: next generation database layer for Drupal 7.