- Patch 4332 by Goba: eliminate compose tips module.

- Patch #5393 by Goba: changes the search hook return value, and requires an array
  containing two elements, the first being the requested title, and the second being
  the result list. Advantages:
    * Cleaner search code in common.inc
    * Po extraction is possible and works fine
    * No hardcoded exceptions for node and comment modules, since any module can
      return results in order of relevance (or another order)

Patch 5287 by Stefan: multiline help texts should become inside a single $output.

- Patch 5283 by Stefan: fixed typos in comment module.

- Comment setting improvements: updated the form descriptions, reorganized the
  settings in groups, fixed a warning, rewrote the comments per page settings,
  etc.

- Patch 4859: new drupal_unpack() consolidates duplicate code and makes it
  easy to show avatars next to nodes and comments.  Patch by Moshe.  As a
  showcase, maybe Xtemplate should have an option to enable/disable avatars?

- Patch #4924: made the comment form themeable.  Patch by Goba.

- Updated code to use new semantics of url() and l().

- Fixed the title and breadcrumb trail of the comment delete page, added
missing cache flush, improved usability and made it so that when you delete
a comment replies are deleted as well.

- Added 'delete comment' links to the comments on node pages.  Hopefully
this will make it easier to maintain old threads such as those attached to
the book pages on drupal.org.

- Comment module maintenance: added missing t() functions and improved
consistency of the calls to drupal_set_message(), used radio buttons instead
of a selection box.

- Updated the calls to menu() to use MENU_HIDE instead of 1

- Replaced the tables used to structure the threaded comment view by div's.
  Patch by Goba.

- Bugfix: the location of comment submission form was incorrect.  Patch by
  Bart.

  + removes the lots of pagers and indirect pager themeing
  + add the theme_pager() function, which should be called as
    theme("pager", ...) to get a pager.

- Tidied up the DoxyGen comments.  Patch by Kjartan.

- Patch 185 by Ax: fixed undefined variables, synchronized xtemplate with sf, etc.

- Introduced a drupal_set_message() and drupal_get_message() function.

  Contributed themes and modules need to be updated:
   - modules: status() is no more; use drupal_set_message() instead.
   - themes: use drupal_get_message() to check for status messages and
     visualize them.

- Committed phase 4 of JonBob's menu system changes.

- Committed phase 3 of JonBob's menu changes.  Adds an API for modules to
  define titles and breadcrumbs for their pages, and updates the theme
  system to display them.

- Patch by JonBob:

  Phase 2 of the menu system integration project. This unifies the interface
  used by admin and non-admin pages, and deprecates the _page hook in favor of
  explicit callbacks from menu(). Breadcrumbs, titles, and help text go away
  as a result of this patch; they will return in the phase 3 patch, printed
  by the theme.

- Made the comment module themable.  Patch by CodeMonkeyX.

- table(...) -> theme("table", ...)

- Fixed bug #4080: comments shown against wrong node.  Reported by chrish.

- Committed stage 2 of the theme system improvements!  Patch by CodeMonkeyX.

- Usability improvement: replaced many selection boxes by radio buttons.
  Patch by Stefan.

- Usability improvement: replaced many selection boxes by radio buttons.
  Patch by Stefan.

- Usability improvement: introduced a form_group() function and updated
  the node and comment module to take advantage of it.  Patch #149 by
  Eric Farris.

- Improvement: made it possible to disable the comment controls and reworded some of the configuration settings.

- Improvement: removed a left-over from Drupal 4.2.0 (dead code).

- Improvement: replaced hard-coded XHTML around the XML icons with class="xml-icon".

- Improvement: removed the custom navigation menus shown at the top of the "user information page" and integrated them in the new navigation block.  The "my account" link in the navigation menu will unfold.  Also removed the "delete account" link/functionality (for now).

- Improvement: fix for "magic quotes" settings.  Patch by Steven.  I also removed check_php_settings().

- Improvement: block themability improvements.  Modified patch from Ax and Steve/CodeMonkeyX.

- Fixed bug #2617: editing user information does not work.  Patch by Kjartan.

- Fixed typo in comment module documentation.  Patch by Mark Coady.

- Documentation fix: updated context-sensitive help to match menu item changes.
  Fixes critical bug #3453.  (In the end someone has to do it ...)

- Bugfix: prefix not prepended to sequences.  Fixes bug #3639.

  Make sure to write:

    db_next_id({table}_field);

  instead of:

    db_next_id(table_field);

- Simplified comment counter caches a bit: removed some redundant SQL code.
  Maybe this will fix Jeremy's "phantom comments".

- comment.module: fixed an ambigous 'timestamp' query

- forum.module: prev/next links no longer excerpt from the title+body in
their title attribute. they now excerpt from only their title. this is
more consistent with rest of drupal, and GROUP BY on node.body which
isn't appreciated by MSSQL. also replaced some '' with NULL which caused
errors in MSSQL

- statistics.module: replaced a USING join with a standard ON join. USING
is not as widely supported, and functionally equivalent.

- Fixed bug #3637: made comment module settings translatable.  Patch #13 by Moshe.

- Fixed bug #3642: removed duplicate settings from user page.  Patch #14 by Moshe.

- Fixed bug #3503: added 'forum topic' link to the 'create content' menu.  Patch
  by Gobar.  I think this might be more intuitive and consistent code-wise; I don't
  want to introduce small hacks.

- Cache improvement: small cache improvement to prevent SQL errors.  Patch by
  Jeremy.

  by Nick (CodeMonkeyX).

- Bugfix: anonymous users could not change comment settings.  Patch by Bart.

- Bugfix: the comment control form always showed "order by date - newest first",
  no matter what order you selected.  Patch by Bart.

- Small usability improvement: only display comment controls when there are
  comments to show.  Patch by Bart.

- Fixed a dozen link titles that were no longer correct due to the menu
  changes.

- Committed part 3 of Michael's help system improvements: removed the $help
  parameter from the menu() function.