#258089 by merlinofchaos and dvessel: Allow themes to have preprocess functions without a corresponding .tpl.php file.
- Patch #323391 by Damien Tournoud: made initialization of the variables an explicit bootstrap phase.
#316868 by Crell: Make addField() alias to the field name, rather than the table and field name when there are no conflicts.
- Patch #304924 by Damien Tournoud: extend error handler to manage exceptions. I have one exception and one fail.
- Patch #320374 by Damien Tournoud, pwolanin et al: worked around a max_allowed_packet size issue with the simpletests.
- Patch #320146 by pwolanin: when in offline mode, link to the admin page to take the site online again.
#320009 by Dave Reid: Remove notice about missing files[] array and prevent incompatible modules from being enabled.
#320024 by Dave Reid: Replace hardcoded drupal_required_modules() with required = TRUE in .info files.
#253569 by aaron, agentrickard, and Dave Reid: Add hook_modules_X to allow modules to react when other modules are enabled, disabled, installed, or uninstalled.
