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- Patch #13941 by Promotheus6: Atom feeds have a CONTENT and/or SUMMARY tag instead of a DESCRIPTION tag. Currently, if both tags are present the aggregator appends the content of both fields to replace the content of the DESCRIPTION tag.

- Patch #29275 by Uwe: I'm currently trying to get aggregator.module in shape for being used as a planet-like software for a Planet Drupal. Here's a patch which allows the site admin to specify which HTML tags are stripped from feeds (or not). This is hardcoded in aggregator.module right now, the attached 2-line patch (for HEAD) makes it configurable.

  TODO: document the defaults in the PHPdoc comments.

- #22154: Change : in aggregator block IDs to -, the colon is an illegal character and causes problems in CSS.

  TODO: we should write down a couple guidelines for these document them in
        the PHPDoc code of drupal_set_message()!  .

- Patch 20910 by chx: centralize print theme page.

- Fix bug in decode_entities() with double-escaped entities.

- Patch #19451 by JonBob: improved consistency of module descriptions.  We should write guidelines for this -- maybe in the PHPDoc code of the _help hook.

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

  We added a 'severity' column to watchdog():
    watchdog($type, $message, $link) --> watchdog($type, $message, $severity, $link);

    * Specify a severity in case you are reporting a warning or error.
    * The $link-parameter is now the fourth parameter instead of the third.

  TODO: document this in the upgrade guide.

- Removed some cruft: left-over xxx_help_page() functions.

- Refactored the queue module: removed the queue module's field from the node table.  With help from Gerhard.

- Slight addition to INSTALL.txt with regard to PHP versions.

- Updated/reworded some node type descriptions as per Boris' suggestions.

- Adding missing {} around a table name in update.php.

   + Moved the block configuration settings to the block administration pages like we did with the other modules (also, administrators had to enable the aggregator blocks twice).
   + Small UI changes to the 'add news feed' page.

  changes are:

  1. Simplified the statistics pages: there are less pages and on the
     remaining pages there is a lot less visual clutter (less columns and
     better presentation).

  2. Reorganized the 'administer - logs' menu: flattened the menu structure
     and removed a number of links.

  3. Improved performance.  Most statistics pages used about 160 slow SQL
     queries which made the statistics pages fairly unusable on my system.
     The new pages use at least 10 times less SQL queries and render much
     faster.  They are actually usable.

  4. There is now a 'track'-tab on node pages, and a second subtrab on the
     user accounts 'track'-tab for people with the 'access statistics'
     permission.  They can be used to resp. track the node and the user.
     This makes the statistics more accessible.

  5. Changed the way watchdog messages are filtered.  This makes it easier
     to introduce new watchdog types.

  6. Reworked the statistics module's permissions.

  7. Less code: 223 insertions(+), 343 deletions(-).

  8. Fixed several glitches: for example, the statistics pages sorted the
     'Name' column by user ID instead of by name.  Unfortunately, it is
     too difficult to backport these to DRUPAL-4-5.

  TODO:

  1. Review the statistics modules help pages.

  2. Help fine-tune the interfaces/views.

  NOTES:

  1. You'll want to run update.php.

- Patch #13443 by Moshe: got rid of the semi-implemented 'page link' feature. All themes currently support primary and secondary links so page links are now deprecated.  Check your contributed modules and update them accordingly.

- Patch #12783 by Stefan: various small consistency/usability improvements.

The primary goal of this patch is to take the 'custom' and 'path' columns of the block overview page and make them into something understandable. As of Drupal 4.5 'custom' lacked an explanation which wasn't buried in help text and path required dealing with regular expressions.

Every block now has a configuration page to control these options. This gives more space to make form controls which do not require a lengthy explanation. This page also gives modules a chance to put their block configuration options in a place that makes sense using new operations in the block hook.

The only required changes to modules implementing hook_block() is to be careful about what is returned. Do not return anything if $op is not 'list' or 'view'. Once this change is made, modules will still be compatible with Drupal 4.5. Required changes to core modules are included in this path.

An additional optional change to modules is to implement the additional $op options added. 'configure' should return a string containing the configuration form for the block with the appropriate $delta. 'configure save' will come with an additional $edit argument, which will contain the submitted form data for saving. These changes to core modules are also included in this patch.

- Patch #11728 by Uwe Hermann: fixed some typos in the code comments, Doxygen documentation and screen output.

  Uwe: I dropped the 'iff' chunks as 'iff' stands for 'if and only if'.

   + Fixed problem with channel data not being trimmed.
   + Made some queries ANSI SQL so they work with PostgreSQL.

- Patch #10945 by Adrian: more PostgreSQL fixes/updates.

- #10909: Aggregator's menu depends on its categories and sources, so when they change, menu_rebuild() needs to be called.

- Patch #8179 by JonBob: reintroduced menu caching.