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- Patch #74645 by drewish, roychri et al: modify file_scan_directory to use a regex for the nomask (and code clean-up).

#142995 by dopry, drewish, quicksketch, jpetso, and flobruit: Adding hook_file_X(). This is an enabler of lots and lots of goodies. See CHANGELOG.txt for more. Awesome work, guys. :)

#197266 by ufku, lilou, Dave Reid, and c960657: Avoid unnecessary query if there is no user limit on uploaded files.

#308434 by drewish, dopry, quicksketch, aaron, jhedstrom, and friends: Massive file.inc cleanup aaaaaand... tests! Yay! :D

- Patch #302763 by Dave Reid, Rob Loach: replace time() by ['REQUEST_TIME'] as per Rasmus' suggestion.  Removed drupal_referrer() for consistency.

- Patch #64967 by Arancaytar, meba: ereg -> preg for performance reasons and future compatilbility.  PHP6 is rumoured to drop ereg support.

- Patch #245115 by kkaefer, John Morahan, JohnAlbin et al: after a long discussion we've decided to make the concatenation operator consistent with the other operators.

#210219 by htalvitie, yched: initialize block caching properties properly on install (and update bugos RC2 sites as well)

- Patch #199955 by saxofaan: file_upload_max_size() returns results in bytes, not in mega bytes.

#194369 by lots of contributors: move default files directory to sites/default/files which can be created automatically on install, so no need to bug the user about it, making the install process easier

- Patch #163246 by keith smith, freso, O Govinda, catch, webchick et al: fixed minor spelling issues and fixed spacing issues.

#173664 by fractile81: fix order of precedence in file_scan_directory(), so subtheme files will really override parent theme files