the most important 404s and 403s.  This makes the watchdog data easier to
  use.  Improved consistency of the 'amdminister > logs' section.

- Patch #79428 by Chris Johnson: remove int display width declarations from MySQL create table statements.

- Patch #77919 by chx, eaton, moshe, et al: enable programmaticaly submitted forms via the pull model.

See: http://drupal.org/node/64279#t-placeholders

- Patch #74326 by Eaton, Royboy, chx, et al: building $node->body with arrays like FAPI for viewing.

  Once again, we're paving the path for CCK in core ... :)

#67648 by craines and pwolanin, always go to search pages for searching (particularly a problem on 404 pages)

- Patch #68926 by chx, jeremy, steven, eaton, webchick, amazon, neil, nedjo et al: an initial install system for Drupal core.

   + reorganized ?q=admin/settings
   + deprecated the _settings hook

#56457 by chx: The search box that can be displayed by some themes (e.g. bluemarine) was not working.