- Patch #511748 by moshe weitzman: pushing rending to later in the cycle so there is more room for customization.

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

- Patch #227232 by dopry, c960657, jmstacey, pwolanin, aaron, drewish: added initial support for PHP file wrappers.

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

#455844 follow-up by yched: Change render() to print render() for consistency with other template variables.

- Patch #243129 by jrchamp, DamZ, mfb, catch, justinrandell, macgirvin, et al: faster implementation of format_date(). Woot.

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

- Patch #482646 by Dave Reid et al: check for existence of ['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] for the SimpleTest user agent.

- 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.

#455844 by yched, JohnAlbin, moshe weitzman, Frando, et al: Allow more granular theming of drupal_render()ed elements.

- Patch #221399 by smk-ka, jeffschuler, lilou, earnie et al: make it possible to enable blocks on 404 pages.

- Patch #334283 by Damien Tournoud, andypost, Freso et al: add context to t() to help deal with ambigious strings (and improved the locale APIs a bit). Example: May is both a short month name as a long month name in English, but not necessarily in other languages.

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

#480044 by JohnAlbin: sites/all/ should take precedence over profiles when searching for modules and themes.

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