- Patch #63881 by kbahey and jakeg: improved Drupal's logging functionality.  Added support for external loggers, and included a small syslog module into core.

- Patch #34755 by chx et al: faster menu system.  HEAD is temporary broken and there is no upgrade path yet.

#100516: CSS preprocessor to cache and compress all .css files. Benchmarks show up to 40% faster page loads.

- Patch #92992 by webchick and neclimdul: clean up documentation that is superseded by the new 'by module' administration dashboard.

- Updated CHANGELOG.

  the most important 404s and 403s.  This makes the watchdog data easier to
  use.  Improved consistency of the 'amdminister > logs' section.

- Patch #78105 by nicki: Since the new table header feature has been committed to cvs (http://drupal.org/node/76741), this patch is to demonstrate the new functionality of defining a table cell as a heading, by removing the custom theme theme_watchdog_event and replacing it with the standard theme_table on the watchdog event details node (admin/log/event/1234) as per Morbis Iff's suggestion.

- Patch #77919 by chx, eaton, moshe, et al: enable programmaticaly submitted forms via the pull model.

See: http://drupal.org/node/64279#t-placeholders

- Patch #74326 by Eaton, Royboy, chx, et al: building $node->body with arrays like FAPI for viewing.

  Once again, we're paving the path for CCK in core ... :)

- #41940: Locale string search broken in some cases (and remove some inappropriate db_escape_string() usage)
- #43491: Missing drupal_goto() after saving settings