- Patch #81461 by catch, pillarsdotnet, beejeebus: clean up the cache API (stop overloading function arguments, remove procedural wrappers).

- Patch #1265586 by James_Stallings, edmund.kwok: remove bitter tasting 'bile' in core documentation ;).

Issue #799932 by David_Rothstein, Stefan Freudenberg: Fixed Simpletest HTTP authentication credentials should use the 'password' form element.

Issue #1118016 by dereine, pwolanin: Fixed conditional visibility of a managed_file() using #states attribute does not work.

Issue #937380 by David_Rothstein, swentel: Fixed errors when submitting the shortcut set configuration page after deleting all shortcuts.

Issue #1125662 by catch, Gábor Hojtsy, bfroehle: Fixed UpdateTestContribCase fails on sites with contrib modules/themes in the filesystem.

Issue #1002048 by Akaoni, Boobaa, joosts, sfyn, bfroehle: Fixed Work around move_uploaded_file() issues with safe_mode() and open_basedir().

Issue #943772 by jpsoto, yched, catch, bojanz, pillarsdotnet, steinmb: Fixed field_delete_field() and others fail for inactive fields.

- Patch #402896 by berdir, catch, andypost, dmitrig01, chx, pounard, sun, sdboyer: introduce DrupalCacheArray and use it for drupal_get_schema().

- Patch #1219236 by Gábor Hojtsy: locale module includes 1350+ lines of unneeded code on all page loads.

- Patch #301071 by fago, andypost, joachim, Damien Tournoud: remove profile module from core. Die profile module, die! RIP.

- Patch #1193044 by Dave Reid: the [file:size] token may not always return in KB, despite description.