- Patch #225450 by Crell, chx, bjaspan, catch, swentel, recidive et al: next generation database layer for Drupal 7.

- Patch #252430 by quicksketch: allow base theme prefix in preprocessor function names to correct expected behavior.

- Patch #43245 by mustafau, Dries, agentrickard, markus_petrux, et al: add an option to not generate blocks for RSS feeds.

- Patch #295564 by boombatower, Damien Tournoud: fixed drupal_http_request error and cleaned up some simpletest stuff.  We should have a much more funky 'all tests passed' screen.  Having all tests pass shouldn't be this boring.  Let's be a bit more creative and injest some fun ... ;-)

- Patch #260484 by catch, boombatower et al: rollback of valid tests, letting ourselves believe that there are no bugs in core. ;)

- Patch #257912 by douggreen, Damien Tournoud: improve performance by flipping two queries during indexing.