- Usability improvement: removed the cron setting.  It was dead code.

- Documentation improvement: updated documentation to match menu item changes.
  Fixes critical bug #3453.  (In the end, someone has to do it ...)

- Committed part 3 of Michael's help system improvements: removed the $help
  parameter from the menu() function.

- Help system improvements: eliminated the _system hook.  Patch by Michael.

- Bloggerapi module fixes.  Patch by Kjartan.

- Coding style fixes.  Patch by Michael.

- Help improvements and translation improvements from Michael.  Thanks!

- Removed dead code.  Patch by stefan.

- Moved the locale settings from the user module to the locale module.
  Patch by Stefan.

- Moved the theme settings from the user module to the system module and
  made the code more intelligent.  Patch by Stefan.

- More translation fixes for the menu items.  Patch by Gabor.

- Made sure the system module can be translated entirely.  Patch by Stefan.

- Made sure all menu items can be translated.  Path by Goba.

- Committed Goba's translation fixes.

- Committed Al's new admin link texts.  Remarks:

  1) As explained by Al, there is still a glitch with the 'create content'
     menu.
  2) The user module part of the patch did not apply due to Kjartan's earlier
     patch.

- Committed the admin menu integration patch.  Thanks Adrian, Stefan and others.

- Committed a partial administration page integration patch.

- Tidied up the usage of module_invoke() and module_invoke_all().  Patch by
  Jonathan Chaffer.

  rest has been completed.

- Documentation improvement by Charly.  Task #2257.

- Committed a slightly modified version of Slavica's table prefix patch.

- Improvement: don't perform XSS checks for trusted users.  Trusted users
  are those that have the "bypass input data check" permission set.  Should
  address bug #2147.

- Improvement: simplified index.php and modules/admin.module.

- Bugfix: fixed broken links in bloggerapi documentation.  Patch by Chris
  Johnson.  Fixes bug #2030.

- Bugfix: fixed the date shown on a book module preview.  Reported as part
  of bug #2097.

- Bugfix: fixed broken URL in the book module documentation.

  Eric A. Farris.

- Improvements: XHTML-ifications.  Patch by GmbH.

- Charset simpliciations.  Patch #46 by Al.

- More charset patches by Al.

- Bugfix: renamed the SQL field 'types' to 'nodes' because 'types' is a reserved keyword in MySQL 4.  This fixes critical bug #1618.  Patch by Marco.

  ==> This fix requires to run update.php!

- Bugfix: made sessions work without warnings when register_globals is turned off. The solution is to use $_SESSION instead of session_register().  This fixes critical bug #1797.  Patch by Marco.

- Bugfix: sometimes error messages where being discarded when previewing a node.  Patch by Craig Courtney.

- Bugfix: fixed charset problems.  This fixes critical bug #1549.  Patch '0023.charset.patch' by Al.

- Code improvements: removed some dead code from the comment module.  Patch by Marco.

- Documentation improvements: polished the node module help texts and form descriptions.  Patch '0019.node.module.help.patch' by Al.

- CSS improvements all over the map!  Patch '0021.more.css.patch' by Al.

- GUI improvements: improved the position of Druplicon in the admin menu.  Patch '0020.admin.logo.patch' by Al.

- GUI improvements: new logos for theme Marvin and theme UnConeD.  Logos by Kristjan Jansen.

- GUI improvements: small changes to the output emitted by the profile module.  Suggestions by Steven Wittens.

- GUI improvements: small fixes to Xtemplate.  Patch '0022.xtemplate.css.patch' by Al.

TODO:

- Some modules such as the buddy list module and the annotation module in the contributions repository are also using session_register().  They should be updated.  We should setup a task on Drupal.

- There is code emitting '<div align="right">' which doesn't validate.

- Does our XML feeds validate with the charset changes?

- The forum module's SQL doesn't work properly on PostgreSQL.

- Michael Frankowski's excellent help text improvements!

- Fixed a typo in the PostgreSQL database scheme.  Patch by Michael Frankowski.

- Fixed a typo in the MSSQL database scheme.  Patch by Michael Frankowski.

- Removed dependency on "register_globals = on"!  Patches by Michael Frankowski.

  Notes:

  + Updated the patches to use $foo["bar"] instead of $foo['bar'].
  + Updated the INSTALL and CHANGELOG files as well.

- Tiny improvement to the "./scripts/code-clean.sh" script.

- Applied  Michael Caerwyn's "%s -> %d" patch.

- Changed all occurences of '%d' to %d as suggested on the mailing list.

- I have added an option to enable/disable cron support.

- Updated the cache system's documentation - it was no longer current.

- Cache improvement: only flush cache when told to.

- Fixed coding style issues.  Patch by Ax.

- Eliminated system_init(), the session stuff, and made it possible to
  rebuild the menu.

- Changed node settings page to use table().
- Minor code beautification here and there.

- Removed the path_uri() function in favor of the $base_url variable and
  fixes a handful of bugs introduced by the clean URL patch.

- Corrected coding style and fixed some "undefined index/variable" warnings.
  Patch by Ax.

- Fixed typo in system module.  Patch by Ax.

- Various system module improvements.  Patch by Al.

- Removed <?php ?> tags from documentation and made sure the important links are
  at the top.  Patch by Al.

- Fixed some broken links.

- New menu houskeeping.  Prototyped by Zbynek.

  The following modules need updating:
    * glossary module
    * feed module (Breyten's version)
    * mailhandler module
    * notify module
    * project module
    * smileys module
    * admin module
    * style module
    * taxonomy_dhtml module

  To avoid unexpected problems menu_add() is deprecated (it will print an
  error message when used) and menu() should be used instead.

- Theme options patch.  See mailing list.