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- Clean URLs: search/type/keywords e.g. "search/node/drupal release". The search
  form is POST submitted, but drupal_gotos to a GET page. This makes it easy to
  copy/paste search URLs, and makes the pager a lot cleaner.

- Remember the search keywords when switching between the search tabs. This is
  done through the same GET URLs rather than the session, so it does not mess up
  between multiple browser tabs.

- Report which keywords were ignored because they were too short.

- #820: Provide search block

- Treat multiple wildcards in a row as one

(hello from the code sprint)

- Patch #17747 by Adrian: first round of PostgreSQL updates!

- Minor code style fixes.

- Patch #17303 by tangent: moved the session settings into /sites/default/settings.php so that subsites can have better control over them. One of the advantages of the site specific settings.php file is that it will never get overwritten during upgrades and having these settings here should prove to be more friendly.

    - permissions menu link updates in a number of modules help
    - anchor link fix in distributed auth help
    - "my account" link fix in user help
    - spelling correction in tracker.module help

- I also changed 'admin/access/perms' to 'admin/access/permissions'.

- Patch #16630 by Aldon: usability improvement: made the lifetime of news items configurable.

- Patch #16246 by Moshe: "Here is a patch for node.module since thta hunk failed last time. Note that I've removed the 'delete' link since it doesn't work and is mostly obsolete with the 'mass delete' feature.  I've also added smart destination andling to the 'url alias delete' feature."

- Patch #16829 by kbahey: separated the forum block for sake of consistency with other blocks.

- Patch #16962 by Neil: "The page module's long help text is a bunch of lies and then it briefly explains it's permissions. IMO it should just be taken out. I can't think of what help should be there."

- Patch #16963 by Neil: the upload's module help text was in bad shape.  Edited it down to what is needed with links that actually work.

  I found another HTML typo, and replaced a <u></u> by <strong></strong> because <u> does not validate as 'XHTML 1.0 stict'.