#534556 by karschp, coltrane, Bojhan, David_Rothstein: Fix double appearance of the settings.php message in the installer

- Patch #950460 by Gábor Hojtsy, drunken monkey, jhodgdon: language selection in advanced search filters broken.

- Patch #862854 by rjgoldsborough, tim.plunkett, reglogge, Jeff Burnz, amateescu, theresaanna, yoroy: no styling for sticky.

#607028 by deviantintegral, marcvangend, uNeedStuff, jhodgdon, mokko, et al: Add README.txt to core. Provides some general information about Drupal and pointers to important reference pages.

#609772 by dww, JacobSingh, ksenzee: Fixed Impossible to extend the FileTransfer class system in contrib

#364470 follow-up by Dave Reid, JohnAlbin, et al: Move submitted by back into a variable. The string approach was too limited.

#935036 by bfroehle, dww, int: Exclude '.' and '..' when recursing through directories in update module.

#977596 by Stevel, sun, dalin, David_Rothstein: Fixed Text format loses weight and status when saving settings

#826486 by kscheirer, drunken monkey, tstoeckler, jhodgdon, sun: Fixed format_date() does not respect admin-defined date formats

- Patch #863318 by carlos8f, andypost, chx, Dave Reid, plach: wrong sort order of aliases for different languages.