- fixed bug in block placement when (1) using a theme with 2 side bars
  and (2) being logged out.
  (reported by Jeroen)
- themed "Editor's note" in theme marvin.
  (reported by Jeroen)

- improved RDF backend class to support more backend formats

- locale module: added documentation (first draft)
- locale module: improved administration interface
- headline module: fixed small visual glitch in export function
- account: small improvements

- added fine-grained user permission system which allows us to give
  certain users access to specific administration sections only.
    Ex. a FAQ maintainer can only edit the FAQ, and members of an
        "editorial board" can only edit comments, diaries and
         stories, ..
- code review => rewrote include/user.inc which is much easier now
- fixed 4 small bugs

- improved layout story.module
- fixed bug in translation

- improved the "menu" hook
- replaced the "open submission queue" (submission.php and submission.inc)
  with an optional module (submission.module).
- tidied up the HTML code of some files

- More updates on the translation support

- initial import of the preliminary translation code.
- added timer.inc for benchmarking purpose
- bugfix for php-clean
- bugfix for account.php
- removed redundant format_data
- ...

- fixed problem with user_permission (reported by Kirstjan)

- a 2nd batch of various updates

- added a "search framework" which allows for easy searching
  (to be continued)
- tidyied up some existing code

- small fix for 4.0.4

- documentation updates contributed by Michael O'Henly <michael@tenzo.com>
  and myself

- removed all tabs

- removed redundant spaces

- added port + directory patch for loading configuration files

- fixed ieni-wienie small bug in comment.inc (reported by NotZen)

- fix for the "block problem" reported by martin@abol.com:
  it only happened when you hosted drupal in a subdirectory a la
      http://yourserver.com/drupal/

- removed redundant options from hostname.conf

- added initial locale support as discussed on the mailing list

- fixed one bug that only showed when up using 4.00 and not with 4.0.4
- added extra checking

I know, I know, it is getting nasty lately but I have another large commit after nothing but code.

This time I redid the "category"-stuff.  Categories - from now on called sections - are now maintained from the admin pages, can have their own post, dump and timout thresholds as discussed earlier (some weeks ago).  By tomorrow evening users will be able to enable or disable section as well - i.e. to customize the content of drop.org.

- fixed some bugs in the new comment/discussion code and added a few
  enhancements

- 2 more bugfixes

- 3 small bugfixes

- updated/improved discussion engine: it needs additional fine-tuning
  though but I think this is stable enough for public consumption and
  real-life testing.
   ==> a first big step towards a flexible comment engine.

IMPORTANT:
  - Required theme updatins:

    UnConeD: check your $theme->controls() as I added a very, very
             dummy implementation

  - Required database updates:

    alter table users modify mode tinyint(1) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL;
    alter table comments change sid lid int(6) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;
    alter table comments add link varchar(16) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL;
    update comments set link = 'story';

- by default, keep the watchdog for one week rather then two weeks
  (http://drop.org/admin.php?op=watchdog is gets way to lengthy)

- Harry Zink reported that 'administrate' is not entirely correct English
  so I renamed "administrate xxx" to "administer xxx".

- rewrote the block placement stuff and updated the themes.
  IMPORTANT: you have to drop 2 tables "blocks" and "layout"
             and you have to recreate them again with those
             in database/database.mysql
- integrated the documentation written by UnConeD

- created 2 new functions; check_textfield() and check_textarea() and
  integrated them were appropriate.  It works better and the code is
  more readable then it used to be:
    (see http://drop.org/discussion.php?id=44&pid=0#0)

- story authors can no longer moderate their own stories
    (requested by Natrak)

- fix inie-winnie small detail in theme marvin

- removed redundant file: a left-over from previous optimizations

- fixed 2 small bugs in account.php
- drastically improved administration section
- drastically revamped story administration:
  added new feature to schedule the publishing of stories
- applied correct naming conventions to submission.php
- fixed 1 small glitch in boxes
- somewhat expanded the documentation
= changed one SQL table
- updated the faq with info on drupal
- ... and more things I forgot about

A batch of patches:

  - configuration:
    + renamed $db_name to $db_user
    + renamed $db_base to $db_name
  - fixed small diary glitch
  - fixed initial-comment-score problem
  - fixed comment rating bug: improved the API and updated the
    themes
  - removed some tabs from Steven ;)
  - fixed backend warnings and improved robustness
    I'm not happy yet with the headline grabber - it generates
    too many SQL errors.
  - some small cosmetic changes in comment.module
  - fixed minor glitch in format_interval()

- fixed small flaw that showed up with PHP 4.0.0-rcxx but not with PHP 4.0.4