- Patch #18437 by Mathias: Drupal doesn't allow URL aliases that map to Userland Manila posts since they usually contain the '$' and are considered an invalid URL. This patch allows '$' in an URL and thus an alias.  It also resolves a disparity between the 'allowable characters' of absolute and relative URLs. As far as I can tell, those parts of the regexp should be the same.

- Patch #18418 by chx: jonbob node_access_view_all patch changed the return value of node_access_where_sql to empty which breaks nicely all queries which are still using this function. This is a good incentive to upgrade to db_rewrite_sql, yes, but I think it causes confusion, 'cos it is not really trivial why the query suddenly not works. Let's make it trivial -- rename it _node_access_where_sql, it is no longer a function to be called from outside. node_access_join_sql similarly.

- Patch #18382 by Neil: usability improvement: organized the blocks on the block administration page by region. (I wanted to do that myself!)

- Patch #18380 by Neil: putting margins on paragraph tags seems like something that Drupal.css shouldn't be doing.

- Patch #17955 by Neil: there was a subtle difference between form_select() and whatever taxonomy was doing.

- Ignore PHP5's strict warnings for now.  The real solution is to rewrite both xmlrpc.inc and xtemplate.inc.

- Modified patch #18328 by Neil: currently the two forum topic blocks share a number of topics in block setting. This is a bit confusing since configuring one blockshould not affect another block.  Fixed some indentation as well.

- Patch #17897 by Neil: changed the order of the joins so that a vocabulary which is not associated with any node types doesn't disappear.  Also removed a centered column that shouldn't be hard coded and, IMO, looked rather weird.

- Patch #17770 by chx: fixed module_invoke() and module_invoke_all() not to use NULL defaults (bugfix) + removed the limitation on the number of paramaters that can be used.

- Patch #18045 by JonBob: the node type admin page uses an unclear callback name, and uses arg() where it is not necessary. The attached patch cleans this up by unifying node_types() with node_types_configure().

- Patch #18123 by chx: the $return['distinct'] in the past should have been module_implements('node_grants') but after JonBob's node_access_view_all_nodes, that part happens only if node_grants is in effect, so it is simplified to 1.

  * split up the menu callback for editing/adding/deleting rules
  * improved the delete message
  * fixed a double page printing bug

- Patch #11645 by Uwe/Ber/Chris/me: improved the database settings.