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- 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.

- Patch #101379 by ChrisKennedy, neclimdul et al: modules missing .info files wrongly adding empty entries to module page.

- Patch #88287 by asimmonds, dww et al: installer doesn't support modules outside root/modules directory.  Critical bugfix.

- Patch #81740 by merlinofchaos, webchick, moshe, neclimdul et al: added package support to the modules page.

- Make installer code integrate better with module.inc / system.module
- Fix schema version bug when installing core

- Patch #68926 by chx, jeremy, steven, eaton, webchick, amazon, neil, nedjo et al: an initial install system for Drupal core.

#46617, Restore some module listings, partially applied, I've omitted places where I felt that sortign by weight would be wanted.
We can discuss those on the issue. Patch by chx.

#21084, Node module is not marked "required", but is required by other required modules, patch by Robert Douglass

- Patch #40886 by chx: fixed problem with recursive/nested node API calls manipulating the same array references.

  "This function is called in one place, so it can be rolled into the calling function. The return value isn't used so we can remove handling of it. This is executed for every non-cached page view, so the smaller code should save a smallish ammount of memory and time."

- Patch #19895 by Moshe: currently modules can inadvertently load all other modules during the bootstrap. this is easy to do by calling a node_load() or module_invoke_all(). this degrades performance for anonymous users when caching is enabled.  With this patch, the module writer will see an php error like "Call to undefined function: drupal_set_html_head()" if this is attempted. basically, unavailable functions are actually reported as unavailable.

- Patch #17770 by chx: fixed module_invoke() and module_invoke_all() not to use NULL defaults (bugfix) + removed the limitation on the number of paramaters that can be used.

- Patch #14731 by chx: made it possible to rewrite node queries.

- Patch #13405 by Moshe: make you actually do something useful with the init hook.  A recent patch to 4.5 and HEAD made this patch run too early in the request (for non-cached pages).

   + Make bootstrap functionality work with HEAD.
   + Move functions into bootstrap.inc so that statistics_exit() works for cached pages.  (Does this close any issues?)