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as a side effect, improve usability of the module screen by performing module
changes all at once

- Patch #105039 by ChrisKennedy: more polish for the custom date formats. Previous custom data format patch was also by Chris but got accidentically committed with another patch.  Thanks Chris.

- Patch #137211 by merlinofchaos: move theme information to .info files and improved theme inheritance.

#127539: progressive operation support, refactoring update.php code to a generic batch API to support runnning operations in multiple HTTP requests
  - update.php is already on the batch API
  - node access rebuilding is in the works
  - automatic locale importing is in the works

 Thanks to Yves Chedemois (yched) for the good code quality, very wide awareness of issues related to batches,
 and the fantastic turnaround times. Hats off.

- Patch #132018 by alienbrain: replace instances of _module_parse_info_file() with drupal_parse_info_file().

- Patch #63881 by kbahey and jakeg: improved Drupal's logging functionality.  Added support for external loggers, and included a small syslog module into core.

- Patch #34755 by chx et al: faster menu system.  HEAD is temporary broken and there is no upgrade path yet.