- Patch #647228 by sun, katbailey, Rob Loach: links are needlessly unable to fully participate in D7 AJAX framework features.

- Patch #769226 by Owen Barton, sun, effulgentsia, alanburke, bleen18, mfer: optimize JS/CSS aggregation for front-end performance and DX.

- Patch #561858 by effulgentsia, sun, rfay, Nick_vh, merlinofchaos, katbailey, dereine, tstoeckler: drupal_add_js() and drupal_add_css() to work for AJAX requests too by adding lazy-load to AJAX framework.

- Patch #925490 by David_Rothstein: list_themes() should not call file_exists() on each theme's info file.

- Patch #910572 by sun, David_Rothstein: command line installations are broken (programmatic form submissions don't need a theme?).

#616240 follow-up by yched, dereine, marvil07: Make Field UI screens extensible from contrib - part II.

- Patch #328357 by bleen18, sun, skilip, alanburke, jenlampton, manarth, fgm, tstoeckler: allow module .info files to add CSS/JS.

- Patch #812016 by effulgentsia, chx, redndahead, Damien Tournoud: themes cannot always participate in drupal_alter().

#715142 by effulgentsia, msmithgu, mr.baileys, Damien Tournoud, sun: Fixed Various URLs escaped twice, since check_url() resp. filter_xss_bad_protocol() calls check_plain().

- Patch #768490 by JohnAlbin, sign: theme_table_select_header_cell() is not really a theme function.

#331951 by aspilicious, sun, jhodgdon, Morbus, et al: Figure out and apply coding standard for casting.

- Patch #555830 by sun, effulgentsia, mgifford, TheRec, aspilicious: clean up theme_image() to use drupal_attributes() for all attributes and revisit defaults for 'alt' and 'title'.

#688294 by Berdir, andypost, Crell, catch: Fixed Switch from db_is_active() to proper exception catching.

- Patch #592008 by moshe weitzman, David_Rothstein, chx: don't save theme registry before modules are included.

- Patch #305653 by donquixote, David_Rothstein, cdale, sun, snowball43, Dave Reid, JohnAlbin, aspilicious: themes disabled during update.

- Patch #629902 by andypost, JohnAlbin, David_Rothstein: critical bug: theme_get_setting() should return NULL for features that are disabled in a theme.

#241570 by effulgentsia and merlinofchaos: Fixed Theme preprocess functions do not get retained when using patterns.