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- Patch #208793 by kbahey, Damien Tournoud: stop hardcoding the HTTP protocol version where possible.

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

- Patch #225450 by Crell, chx, bjaspan, catch, swentel, recidive et al: next generation database layer for Drupal 7.

- Patch #287877 by dmitrig01: rename drupal_rebuild_code_registry() to registry_rebuild() for consistency.

- Patch #270508 by paul.levvik and pwolanin: usability improvement: image toolkits should not have to be copied.

- Patch #276581 by catch: wrote missing tests for contact module and simplified contact module thanks to that.  Also removed some whitespace.

- Patch #258397 by R.Muilwijk and myself: IP address detection improvements.  Added support for clusters and wrote various IP address related tests.

  et al.  Can you say 'registry'?  Drupal now maintains an internal registry of
  all functions or classes in the system, allowing it to lazy-load code files as
  needed (reducing the amount of code that must be parsed on each request). The
  list of included files is cached per menu callback for subsequent loading by
  the menu router. This way, a given page request will have all the code it needs
  but little else, minimizing time spent parsing unneeded code.

- 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.

  The access rules capability of user module has been stripped down to a
  simple method for blocking IP addresses. E-mail and username restrictions
  are now available in a contributed module. IP address range blocking is
  no longer supported and should be done at the server level.

  This patch is partly motiviated by the fact that at the usability testing,
  it frequently came up that users went to "access rules" when trying to
  configure their site settings.

#50901 by chx: do not allow user login under maintenance mode, if the logged in user has no site config permission

 - whitespaces at end of lines
 - indentation
 - control structure usage
 - whitespace in empty lines
 - phpdoc comment formatting

#141727 by merlinofchaos, dvessel, sun: restore themeability support for maintenance pages (regression)

#173408 by markus_petrux / add1sun: move proxy IP configuration options to settings.php, because these need to be used before Drupal has the variables loaded from the database

#190283 by myself and JirkaRbyka: use get_t() in pre-database setup code, add missing javascript key to language objects (kills notices) and document st() better

#182675 by chx: fix caching bootstrap, so hook_boot() and the timer is called when required, integrating the cache init function right into the bootstrap

#163785 by Eaton, dvessel and quicksketch: theme .info files should be able to override core and module CSS files based on file basenames

#172262 by JirkaRybka: better globals handling in install system, so the choosen profile and language are remembered

#173227 by Desbeers: make language listing work early in the bootstrap, when modules are not yet loaded (fix a regression from a previous patch)

 - make searches work again, better worded
 - do not cache English stuff
 - fix strike through on string seek page
 - fix exports for translations