- Patch #336483 by brianV: SELECT MAX(comment_count) FROM node_comment_statistics did a full table scan so added an index.

- Patch #535564 by Gábor Hojtsy: the D7UX mockups call for a top level Content item, which would immediatey lead to the "Find content" screen. The current Drupal 7 code is almost there, but still has an RSS settings item blocking the implementation of this by default and aggregator and book also add subitems.

- Patch #522176 by espie, mikey_p: improved the error message that one gets when importing a translation file fails.

- Patch #511748 by moshe weitzman: pushing rending to later in the cycle so there is more room for customization.

- Patch #233091 by dww, anarcat, gordon: restructured update.php to start making it possible to update Drupal sites from the shell.

- Patch #491556 by Berdir: completed converting core to DBTNG. Oh my. Kudos to Berdir for this humongous effort.

- Patch #503496 by deekayen, boombatower, Dave Reid: better sid generation in tests to help us make progress on PIFR 2.x

- Patch #211747 by chx, alex_b, dww: allow specifying version information as part of module dependencies.

- Patch #513592 by Damien Tournoud: make it faster to rebuild the registry, mainly to improve performance of SimpleTest.

- Patch #524728 by David_Rothstein, JoshuaRogers, JacobSingh et al: refactor install.php to allow Drupal to be installed from the command line.

- Patch #523950 by moshe weitzman, yched, catch: update comment rendering to take full advantage of the drupal_render() paradigm.

- Patch #374441 by tic200, Damien Tournoud, scor: refactor Drupal HTML corrector using PHP5's XML/Dom parser.

- Patch #227232 by dopry, c960657, jmstacey, pwolanin, aaron, drewish: added initial support for PHP file wrappers.