- Patch #544360 by Gábor Hojtsy, ksenzee, David_Rothstein, seutje, JacobSingh, paul.lovvik, EclipseGc et al: Dashboard module 1.0. Wo-hoot!

#561452 by pwolanin and David_Rothstein: Add API function to get module/theme info without rebuilding it.

#589754 by rfay and Crell: Fixed non-recoverable install if invalid database specified in settings.php.

- Patch #572618 by effulgentsia, pwolanin, sun: all theme functions should take a single argument. Code clean-up and performance improvement. Woot.

- Patch #578520 by sun | c960657, mfb, Dries, catch, mattyoung: make  in url() only accept an array. Another nice API clean-up!

before a form builder function, to facilitate common form elements. Clean-up
from form_builder changes from CTools patch. Has nice side-benefit of making
all form functions' signatures consistent.

#564394 by Berdir and Crell: Removed database BC layer. nah nah nah nah... hey hey hey... gooood byeeee...

#577298 by David_Rothstein: Fixed body field on non-node module-added node types when included from an installation profile.

- Patch #570572 by winston, David_Rothstein | Shai, Xano, alexanderpas, emmajane, kazar: changed label for user/1 account from 'administrator' to 'site maintenance account'.

- Patch #460320 by catch, fago, Frando: standardized, pluggable entity loading for nodes, users, taxonomies, files and comments.

#547846 by David_Rothstein: Fixed a missing reference operator that caused Drupal installation to fail on PHP 5.3.

#497118 by chx, catch, pwolanin, JoshuaRogers, and Jacob Singh: Remove the function registry. While the hope was that this would result in improved performance for low-end hosts, it comes at the expense of critical development experience problems and less benefit than something like APC. Class registry remains intact to facilitate autoloading.

Of all the patches to accidentally commit without a message. :( Rolling back registry rip. Let's try that again.

#326539 by JohnAlbin, sun, cha0s, ultimateboy, Rob Loach, Damien Tournoud: Convert 'class' attribute to use an array, not a string.

#509398 by adrian: Turned install profiles into modules with full access to the Drupal API. Almost all WTFs/minute now removed from install profiles. Woohoo! :D

#517814 by jmstacey, justinrandell, pwolanin, drewish, Jody Lynn, aaron, dopry, and c960657: Converted File API to stream wrappers, for enhanced private/public file handling, and the ability to reference other storage mechanisms such as s3:// and flicker://.

- Patch #545356 by Damien Tournoud: sidebars were broken in install.php, update.php, and the expert profile due to a previous patch that made the sidebar regions more semantic for RTL support.

- Patch #199774 by dww, ugerhard, brianV, John Morahan: make it more 'natural' to enable security notification e-mails.

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

- Patch #482646 by Dave Reid et al: check for existence of ['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] for the SimpleTest user agent.

- Patch #497612 by Moshe Weitzman et al: harden user login by correctly using the form API.  Complete commit now.  Thank you, thank you.

- Patch #202775 by michaelfavia, jabapyth: fixed database testing and error handling during installation.