Issue #2308745 by Alumei, dawehner, Wim Leers, larowlan, Arla, alexpott, g.oechsler, R.Muilwijk, Berdir, catch, klausi, clemens.tolboom, MattA, Crell: Remove rest.settings.yml, use rest_resource config entities

Issue #2724823 by tedbow, dawehner, Wim Leers, clemens.tolboom: EntityResource: read-only (GET) support for configuration entities

Issue #2626298 by marthinal, borisson_, Wim Leers, dawehner: REST module must cache only responses to GET requests

Issue #2579235 by kylebrowning, willzyx: Resource plugin manager needlessly calls wrong method to instantiate plugins

Issue #2718545 by e0ipso, naveenvalecha: Refactor \Drupal\rest\RequestHandler::handle() into smaller methods

Issue #2719695 by alexpott, Mile23: Fix 'Drupal.Classes.ClassDeclaration.CloseBraceAfterBody' coding standard

Issue #2665992 by alexpott, klausi, heykarthikwithu, xjm, tstoeckler: @file is not required for classes, interfaces and traits

Issue #2351015 by plach, effulgentsia, Wim Leers, dawehner, martin107, damiankloip, cilefen, Fabianx, catch, pwolanin, Damien Tournoud, znerol, YesCT, larowlan: URL generation does not bubble cache contexts

Issue #1392754 by tss, justAChris, jhodgdon: Comply with new documentation standards for @file for namespaced class files

Issue #2463009 by Wim Leers: Introduce CacheableResponseInterface: consolidate ways of setting X-Drupal-Cache-Tags/Contexts headers

Issue #2281619 by dawehner, tim.plunkett: Convert most direct usages within module code of routing related request attributes to use RouteMatchInterface instead

Issue #2158571 by tstoeckler, dawehner, kgoel, tim.plunkett, catch, effulgentsia: Routes added in RouteSubscribers cannot be altered.

Issue #1986802 by yched: Rename PluginInspectionInterface::getDefinition() to getPluginDefinition().

Issue #1891052 by klausi: Fixed Protect write operations from CRSF by requiring an token (when using cookie/session-based authentication).