- 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'.

  Goba: it would be nice if one of the core themes would showcase this functionality. ;-)

- I had to use DISTINCT for the tracker.module's SQL queries.

- Patch #16253 by Goba: this simple and straightforward patch adds the ability to define different types of markers (while retaining the old default behaviour of the new and required markers to look the same). Someone with enough time on his hands might be able to partition the new marker to a real new marker and a changed marker (since node_is_new() returns TRUE even if nodes changed, and not only when they are new). This is the base on which the new patch can be worked though.

- Fix tracker pager count query being wrong (it did not return a count but a set, and it counted nodes with more than 1 comment as multiple nodes).
- Clean up various SQL queries: removing literally inserted data (db_escape_string is evil!), fixing single "%" which should be "%%", fixing integers being compared as strings.

- Tiny code style fix

- Patch #14731 by chx: made it possible to rewrite node queries.

- Patch #14262 by Richard: help text improvements for the tracker module.

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

- Modifed patch by ccourtne: made the tracker module take advantage of the node_comment_statistics table.  Improves performance of the tracker page by facter 10 because it eliminates up to 20 SQL queries.

- Patch #11577 by drumm: changed t('ago') -> t('%time ago', ...) to make it
  translatable in languages such as Spanish.

- Usability improvement: the 'recent posts' feature on the user pages lead
  to a page with a confusing (wrong) title so I shuffled things around a bit
  and tab-ified it as 'track'.

- Patch #8179 by JonBob: reintroduced menu caching.

- Patch by JonBob: for consistency and readability, add brief descriptions of each source file inside the @file comment block at the head of the file. This helps with Doxygen indexing, and also allows neophytes to see what a file does immediately on opening the source, regardless of the organization of the hooks.

- Code improvements by Stefan: use capital letters for header titles (and added some missing t() functions).

- Patch #9330: ucfirst() gives problem when used with multibyte charset.
  Replaced the use of ucfirst() with a CSS-based solution.

- Patch #9543 by JonBob: added node-level access control!

- Patch #9478 by JonBob: allow printf-style arguments in pager_query.

  Currently pager_query() is the black sheep of the database query family, because it does not allow for printf-style arguments to be inserted in the query. This is a problem because it introduces developer confusion when moving from an unpaged query to a paged one, and it encourages substitution of variables directly into the query, which can bypass our check_query() security feature.

  This patch adds this ability to pager_query(). The change is backwards-compatible, but a couple calls to the function in core have been changed to use the new capability.

- Patch by Matt: made it possible to alias an URL multiple times.

- Fixed colspan in tracker table.

- Renamed '... your ...' to '... my ...' (cfr. 'my account).

- Patch #9031 by Morbus: this last tracker patch was broken - for installations where the comment.module is turned on, $comments is never set to 0, and posts that have no comments instead get the value of the last successful comment_num_all. The attached patch corrects this ($comments is set to 0 before we do anything) and also merges the if statements.

- Patch #9031 by Ber: if the comment module is not available comment_num_all()
  should not be called.

Tabs patch!

CHANGES
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 + Introduced tabs. First, we extended the menu system to support tabs. Next, a tab was added for every link that was (1) an administrative action other than the implicit 'view' (2) relevant to that particular page only. This is illustrated by the fact that all tabs are verbs and that clicking a page's tab leads you to a subpage of that page.

 + Flattened the administration menu. The tabs helped simplify the navigation menu as I could separate 'actions' from 'navigation'. In addition, I removed the 'administer > configuration'-menu, renamed 'blocks' to 'sidebars' which I hope is a bit more descriptive, and made a couple more changes. Earlier, we already renamed 'taxonomy' to 'categorization' and we move 'statistics' under 'logs'.

 + Grouped settings. All settings have been grouped under 'administer > settings'.

TODO
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 + Update core themes: only Xtemplate default supports tabs and even those look ugly.  Need help.

 + Update contributed modules.  The menu() hook changed drastically.  Updating your code adhere the new menu() function should be 90% of the work.  Moreover, ensure that your modue's admin links are still valid and that URLs to node get updated to the new scheme ('node/view/x' -> 'node/x').

- Added support for 403 handling.  Patch by JonBob.  As a side benefit,
  administrators will be able to define a custom 403 page, just as they
  can define 404 pages now.

  This needs to be documented in the "Changes since / migrating to ..."
  pages.

- Tiny usability improvement for translators.  Patch by Gerhard.

  + Updated the _user() hook's "$type == 'view'" case to match the
     "$type == 'edit'" case.  That is, both have to return an associtive
     array of the format array('category' => 'fields').

   + Updated the profile pages to group fields by category.  Made possible
     thanks to the above change.

   + Moved logic out of the theme_ functions.

- Tracker and forum module improvements!

  Note: the CSS of the tracker page has changed.  Some CSS files still have
  to be updated.

- Rewrote the profile module:

   + Added a 'created' field to the users table and renamed the 'timestamp'
     fied to 'changed' (cfr. node table).  Update.php will try to determine
     a 'created' timestamp for existing users.

   + The profile module no longer uses serialized data but has its own set
     of tables.  Known existing profile data is migrated by these new tables.
       TODO: migrate the birthday field.

   + The profile fields can be grouped, and within each group, profile fields
     can be sorted using weights.

   + The profile pages can be themed.

   + The profiles can be browsed based on certain properties/settings.

   + Change the _user hook: (i) 'private_view' and 'public_view' are merged
     into 'view' as there are no private fields and (ii) 'edit_form' has
     been renamed to 'edit'.

   + Avatar handling has been refactored and is now part of the user module.
     The users table has a dedicted 'picture' field.

   + Simplified the way themes should use display/visualize pictures or
     avatars.

   + Made it possible for administrators to replace or delete avatars.

   + ...

  I hope this make for a good base to build on collectively.

- Extended tracker comments to handle project issues.

- Patch by Steven: removed redundant permission checks.  These are no longer
  required thanks to the new 404 handling.