#182410 by greggles: HTTP Basic authentication username and password was parsed in drupal_http_request() but then not used in the request

#178999 follow up patch by sun: fix lots of code comment formatting and grammar errors in common.inc

#163785 by Eaton, dvessel and quicksketch: theme .info files should be able to override core and module CSS files based on file basenames

- Patch #150245 by webchick, bjaspan, ralf, Arancaytar et al: move the .schema files into .install files to prevent mistakes.

#180877 by Arancaytar: drupal_write_record() was not prefixing tables properly because PHP string parsing behavior

- Patch #169982 by moshe, eaton, bjaspan, nedjo, yched, et al: missing feature from schema API: load/save records based upon schema.

- Patch #144634 by chx: fixed critical bug that prevented language negotiation to work after/when drupal_goto() is called.

#178999 by sammys: register header(Location) as a shutdown function in drupal_goto() so the redirection takes place after the session data was written to the database

#168620 by hass: remove extraneous @charset rules from the compressed CSS files, because Safari chokes on them. Actual testing was done at #150759

Marking code as beta 1 in preparation of the first beta release of Drupal 6, also add back E_NOTICE removal for the release.

#63352 by kkaefer: add special prefix to long month names in format_date so May is recognized differently in short and long formats

#171606 by Heine: ported security fix from Drupal 4.7/5; use SCRIPT_NAME instead of PHP_SELF in links to avoid XSS holes

#168812 by webchick and pwolanin: in case we have a database error, trace it back to the original database function call, so we can provide a more accurate error message for DB errors

- Patch #168028 by dvessler, merlinofchaos, pwolanin et al: both theme functions and templates may need include files. Flush your caches.

- Patch #145218 by profix898, bennybobw, Crell, forngren et al: use href instead of @import for CSS.

- Patch #163191 by hswong3i: removed db_num_rows() for compatibility with Oracle and DB2.  Also a performance improvement.

  This is a small form API extension (doesn't break existing code) that
  facilitates the Drupal 6 upgrade of the Views module.  A good example
  of why it can be beneficial to start upgrading your modules early on in
  the code freeze. ;)

#112374 by Wesley Tanaka: drupal_add_feed() should not allow adding the same feed more then once to the page

  unanimously agreed to rollback the deletion API.  We all support the
  features this patch added, yet not its actual design and implementation.
  After some talk, we decided that it would be better for Drupal -- in the
  long term -- not to go with a solution that isn't 100%. We also recognize
  that in the short term, this patch would have been useful addition. So
  let's figure out how we can implement this properly in D7.

  This is a very important patch, but one that is merely an enabler.
  Hopefully we'll see more people submitting "action patches" in the
  near future.

  Thanks for the hard work and persistence, John.  *If* you decide
  to update the Drupal Pro Development book to Drupal 6, make sure
  to add a chapter on actions. ;)

#154218 by Steven: HTML to text email converter, centralizing email wrapping in Drupal core and providing a solid conversion function for contributed modules

#154224 by hunmonk: add destination argument to _drupal_delete(), instead of using drupal_goto() directly, so the callback cycle can complete

#150210 by bjaspan and Frando: explicit table names for create table statements and fixing a schema referencing bug