GitLab

- Patch #428744 by Gabor: make the main page content a real block and clean up some of the content API.

- Patch #392362 by Xano, Dave Reid: remove clean URL option from the installation process -- automatically enable clean URLs when possible, or hide the option when clean URLs cannot be enabled.

- Patch #254491 by chx, catch, justinrandell, pwolanin, David_Rothstein, et al: centralized static caching to improve testability of the Drupal code, and to remove $reset-parameters.  Thanks for taking the time to convince me, catch!

#304163 by chx: Allow update.php to re-generate settings.php. Now possible to upgrade Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. Oh, yeah.

- Patch #382096 by Arancaytar: improve the form limits so that they actually make sense and don't get in the way of SQLite support.

#125030 by kkaefer, quicksketch, dvessel, Steven, and John Resig: Allow compatibility with other JavaScript libraries.

#355496 by geodaniel, Dave Reid: Always list available databases, with explanation when only one is in the list.

#363013 by mannkind: Use getwd() rather than realpath(__FILE__) to determine drupal root, so we don't break symlinks.

#368729 by meba: (i18n sprint) Fix error during multilingual installation because of NULL value on required field.

#362423 by chx: Include session.inc during installer to avoid fatal errors if things don't go exactly according to plan.

#203323 by JirkaRybka, robertgarrigos, thePanz, c960657, and sun: Fix undefined index locale in install.php and clean up crufty code.

- Patch #201122 by c960657, Moshe Weitzman: never write anonymous sessions, unless something has been written to . This is an important performance improvements -- as long as you use modules that use  carefully. It might be good to report some analytics about this in the performance settings page so administrators can see if there is a 'broken' module.

- Patch #352722 by dmitrig01: conditionally show 'settings.php not writable' error so that the message doesn't show up when the file does not exist.

- Patch #333143 by justinrandell: cleaning up the Drupal bootstrap code, removing bootstrap flag in system table.

#11077 by mfb, KarenS, macgirvin, and jjkd: Can you say Daylight Savings Time? I bet you didn't think Drupal ever would! :)

- Patch #74645 by drewish, roychri et al: modify file_scan_directory to use a regex for the nomask (and code clean-up).