- Patch 4916: improved preparation of $node->teaser and $node->body.  Patch by
  Goba.

- Updated the calls to menu() to use MENU_HIDE instead of 1

- Introduced a drupal_set_message() and drupal_get_message() function.

  Contributed themes and modules need to be updated:
   - modules: status() is no more; use drupal_set_message() instead.
   - themes: use drupal_get_message() to check for status messages and
     visualize them.

- Committed phase 4 of JonBob's menu system changes.

- Performance improvement: avoid copying/cloning arrays.  Patch #155 by anarcat.

- Committed phase 3 of JonBob's menu changes.  Adds an API for modules to
  define titles and breadcrumbs for their pages, and updates the theme
  system to display them.

- Patch by JonBob:

  Phase 2 of the menu system integration project. This unifies the interface
  used by admin and non-admin pages, and deprecates the _page hook in favor of
  explicit callbacks from menu(). Breadcrumbs, titles, and help text go away
  as a result of this patch; they will return in the phase 3 patch, printed
  by the theme.

- table(...) -> theme("table", ...)

- Committed stage 2 of the theme system improvements!  Patch by CodeMonkeyX.

- Committed stage 1 of the menu callbacks improvements.  Patch by Jonathan.

- Usability improvement: replaced many selection boxes by radio buttons.
  Patch by Stefan.

- Bugfix: fixed typo in cloud module.  Patch by Marky.

- Bugfix: fixed menu glitch in book module.  Patch by Kjartan.

- Bugfix: fixed problem with book outlines.  Reported by Mark Cheverton.

- Usability improvements to the user module: removed some redundant menu
  items by taking advantage of the column sorting, added status messages
  and so on.  Patch by Moshe plus some fixes.

- Made the profile module use the table() function.  Patch by Moshe.

- Fixed breadcrumb spacing.  Patch by Moshe.

- Fixed colspan problem with node overview table.  Patch by Stefan.

- Fixed inconsistency with table sorting.  Patch 0122 by Al.

  changes.

- Fixed some broken links.

- Committed part 3 of Michael's help system improvements: removed the $help
  parameter from the menu() function.

- Help system improvements: eliminated the _system hook.  Patch by Michael.

- Bloggerapi module fixes.  Patch by Kjartan.

- Coding style fixes.  Patch by Michael.

- Fixed book preview problem.  Patch by Kjartan.

- Help improvements and translation improvements from Michael.  Thanks!

- Bugfix: made printer-friendly pages work.  They were rendered but never
  printed.

- Associate a callback with the menu links!  (This callback is not yet being
  called but will be as soon the remaining links have been transformed to use
  the menu system.)

- Made sure the menu does not render links with no callback and no children.
  Like this, the 'create content' link is not being shown when the user has
  no permission to add any content.

- More translation fixes for the menu items.  Patch by Gabor.

  "create content" link.

- Manually merged the user module's new menu items.  Al's patch did not
  apply.

- Added some missing t()s.

- Committed Al's new admin link texts.  Remarks:

  1) As explained by Al, there is still a glitch with the 'create content'
     menu.
  2) The user module part of the patch did not apply due to Kjartan's earlier
     patch.

- Committed the admin menu integration patch.  Thanks Adrian, Stefan and others.

- Committed Nick's _content improvements.

- Committed a partial administration page integration patch.

- Fixed typo.  Patch by Nick.

- Book module improvements.  This commit changes the behavior of the "view"
  hook.  See mailing list for details; search for a mail with the subject:
  '[IMPORTANT] behavior of "view" hook changed'.  Modified patch from Nick.

- Committed Nick's path improvements; you can now control the look and feel
  of the breadcrumb navigation.

- Fixed a number of small user experience inconsistencies pointed out by
  Keith.

  PostgreSQL and MSSQL database scheme as well.

- Made sure the update script updates the correct tables when database
  prefixing is enabled.  Patch by Bart Jansens.

- Improved the breadcrumb navigation of the book and the forum module as per
  Keith Instone's suggestions.

- Updated page titles (or block titles) and links to match.  Suggested by
  Keith Instone.

- Added missing 'thread' field to the comment table of the MySQL database scheme.
  Fixes bug #2590.

1) Bugfix: changed INNER JOIN to LEFT JOIN to make forum topics with no comments show on the topic overview page.

2) Beautified the forum module views; rewritten to use the table() rendering functions, X HTML-ified the emitted code, added additional CSS tags, and removed hard-coded markup.  This improves themeabality; it should be able to mimic the view and color scheme of, say, http://www.phpbb.com/.

3) Reorganized forms and links (interactive elements) to improve usability.  Also ensured that the link names and page titles match.

4) Temporary removed container functionality: this simplified the work and eliminated some usability issues.

   * Removed 'handbook' title.

   * Added a 'books' link to the book location bar: the link takes you to
     the book overview page.

   * Renamed a few 'collaborative books' to 'books' so that the links and
     page/box titles match.

- Help system improvements from Michael.

- Committed a slightly modified version of Slavica's table prefix patch.

- Improvement: made it easier to translate the book outline.  Patch #67 by
  Stefan.

- Improvement: don't perform XSS checks for trusted users.  Trusted users
  are those that have the "bypass input data check" permission set.  Should
  address bug #2147.

- Improvement: simplified index.php and modules/admin.module.

- Bugfix: fixed broken links in bloggerapi documentation.  Patch by Chris
  Johnson.  Fixes bug #2030.

- Bugfix: fixed the date shown on a book module preview.  Reported as part
  of bug #2097.

- Bugfix: fixed broken URL in the book module documentation.

- Bugfix: fixed utf-8 problem for people that use PHP 4.2.x or below.  Patch #33 by Al.

- Bugfix: fixed translation problems in the user module and the block module.  Patch by Stefan.

- Improvement: made it impossible to delete user role #1 and #2.  Patch #38 by Al.

- Improvement: fixed the "Allowed HTML tag" issues.  Makes for better code and improved usability.  Patch #35 by Al.

  NOTE: as soon the compose tips make their way into CVS, most of this code can be removed.