#323112 by dmitrig01, kkaefer, quicksketch, frando and many many more: Now presenting... Vertical Tabs. Fantastic new UI improvement for node forms and hopefully more in the future.

#369964 by yched and bjaspan: Refactor field validation and error reporting. Field API no longer coupled to Form API. Hooray.

- Patch #361683by Barry, Yves, Karen, Moshe Weitzman, David Strauss, floriant, chx, David Rothstein: initial field API patch. More work to be done, but ... oh my!

- Patch #351235 by dmitrig01, webchick, frando, moshe weitzman, et al: hook_page_alter.  Oh, behave.

- Patch #244904 by edkwh, keith.smith: renamed 'input format' to 'text format' based on UMN usability study.

- Patch #335086 by recidive: rename node, filter and comment module tables to singular for consistency.  Oh my.

- Patch #161301 by Eaton, Sun, moshe and webchick: make checking for node edit forms easier. DX improvement.

#125315 by chx, sun, Gábor Hojtsy, drumm, and friends: Add #input_format FAPI property that can be used by WYSIWYG editors. WOOHOO.

- Patch #302763 by Dave Reid, Rob Loach: replace time() by ['REQUEST_TIME'] as per Rasmus' suggestion.  Removed drupal_referrer() for consistency.

- Patch #245115 by kkaefer, John Morahan, JohnAlbin et al: after a long discussion we've decided to make the concatenation operator consistent with the other operators.

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