- simplified the comment code: the SQL queries are less complex, thus
  faster now.

- applied David Norman's patch to turn all <?'s into fully qualified
  <?php's.

A rather large and important update:

revised most of the SQL queries and tried to make drupal as secure as possible (while trying to avoid redundant/duplicate checks).  For drupal's sake, try to screw something up.  See the mail about PHPNuke being hacked appr. 6 days ago.  The one who finds a problem is rewarded a beer (and I'm willing to ship it to Norway if required).  I beg you to be evil.  Try dumping a table a la "http://localhost/index.php?date=77778;DROP TABLE users" or something. ;)

- improved comment module - code revision
- improved backend module - moreover headlines now work
- (automatically) stripped tabs and trailing whitespaces from
  Jeroen's theme.

- added fine-grained user permission system which allows us to give
  certain users access to specific administration sections only.
    Ex. a FAQ maintainer can only edit the FAQ, and members of an
        "editorial board" can only edit comments, diaries and
         stories, ..
- code review => rewrote include/user.inc which is much easier now
- fixed 4 small bugs

- a 2nd batch of various updates

- added a "search framework" which allows for easy searching
  (to be continued)
- tidyied up some existing code

- added new feature for evaluating purpose: user rating (mojo, karma)!
- removed tabs from Jeroen's theme

- removed redundant spaces

- updated/improved discussion engine: it needs additional fine-tuning
  though but I think this is stable enough for public consumption and
  real-life testing.
   ==> a first big step towards a flexible comment engine.

IMPORTANT:
  - Required theme updatins:

    UnConeD: check your $theme->controls() as I added a very, very
             dummy implementation

  - Required database updates:

    alter table users modify mode tinyint(1) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL;
    alter table comments change sid lid int(6) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;
    alter table comments add link varchar(16) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL;
    update comments set link = 'story';

- created 2 new functions; check_textfield() and check_textarea() and
  integrated them were appropriate.  It works better and the code is
  more readable then it used to be:
    (see http://drop.org/discussion.php?id=44&pid=0#0)

- story authors can no longer moderate their own stories
    (requested by Natrak)

- fix inie-winnie small detail in theme marvin

A batch of patches:

  - configuration:
    + renamed $db_name to $db_user
    + renamed $db_base to $db_name
  - fixed small diary glitch
  - fixed initial-comment-score problem
  - fixed comment rating bug: improved the API and updated the
    themes
  - removed some tabs from Steven ;)
  - fixed backend warnings and improved robustness
    I'm not happy yet with the headline grabber - it generates
    too many SQL errors.
  - some small cosmetic changes in comment.module
  - fixed minor glitch in format_interval()

Surprise, surprise.  After nothing but code, a large batch of changes:
 - removed droplets
 - added (optional) admin_blocks module
 - added (optional) affiliate module
 - added (optional) about module (only placeholder, under construction)
 - fixed some tiny bugs (e.g. quote bug in search.php)
 - partionally rewrote some modules to be big, bad and better
 - partionally rewrote some modules to be more uniform
 - added GNU GPL license to CVS

Also:
 - installed PHP 4.0.4 on my localhost and now working
   towards PHP 4.0.4 compatibility.
 - I think I'll baptize the engine "drupal".  If you have a
   better idea, try convincing me ASAP.

Todo:
 - more testing (also with PHP 4.0.4)
 - make "project"-module: download, info, blah blah
 - complete documentation

- improved web interface of cron module.

- improved web interface of account module.

- added simple permission system with both administrators
  and regular users. It can be made more fine-grained but
  it will do for now.

- various small enhancements to the other modules, but
  nothing big.

- added a whole bunch of NEW modules