- Patch #30984 by webchick, keith.smith, kkaefer, Crell et al: provide descriptions for permissions on the permission administration page.

#215858 by pwolanin: localized menu options were saved into the database, avoid this by using different variable names / array keys

#204411 by chx, slightly modified: heal a possible MySQL import error when the anonymous user becomes broken

#201641 by Ralf Stamm, Pancho: sort themes by their .info name, not their file name (just like modules)

#190729 by aufumy, Pasqualle, slightly modified: report incompatibility early, if the dependencies key is not an array in the .info file

#209584 by Rob Loach: 404/403 validation is also done in runtime so to allow more flexibility here, remove the submission time validation

#201540 follow up by zoo33: move jpeg quality validation to where it belongs, so it is only called if the current image toolkit requires it

#200777 by JirkaRybka: theme settings form relied on _POST[] and stored irrelevant formapi keys as theme settings

#204420 by webernet: do not show messages about status problems to those who will not be able to click and go to the reports

#201577 by Pasqualle: let the admin theme be configured even if it is disabled (mirror blocks admin behavior)

#183940 by bjaspan, keith.smith: remove broken JS compression, but leave JS aggregation; update help text to that effect

#199874 by gaele, keith.smith and JirkaRybka: better explanation of site email address, slogan and mission based on usability feedback

#201540 by theborg, douggreen, Pancho: some system setting were not validated properly; also added missing required field markers

#197314 by vitezslav.smid (as GHOP 39): improve/add/update phpdoc in aggregator, comment and system modules

#194010 by chx: Proper recursive dependency checking and ordering module installation in dependency order, so later installed modules can use previously installed module functionality

 - whitespaces at end of lines
 - indentation
 - control structure usage
 - whitespace in empty lines
 - phpdoc comment formatting

#198332 by catch: cache clear button was named 'cache' accidentally, but this conflicts with the 'cache' setting, so renames to 'clear'

Neither of the optimnization checkboxes were selected on the performance page, due to data type mismatch. Noticed while testing #113607.

security fixes forward ported from Drupal 5.2 - previously not committed parts of http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=74833

#133092 by wmostrey: hide help page links when help module is not enabled, so the links lead to 404s

- Patch #163246 by keith smith, freso, O Govinda, catch, webchick et al: fixed minor spelling issues and fixed spacing issues.

#173408 by markus_petrux / add1sun: move proxy IP configuration options to settings.php, because these need to be used before Drupal has the variables loaded from the database