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- Patch #16282 by Arancaytar, mustafau, keith.smith, et al: add OPML import functionality for RSS feeds.  Woot.

  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.

- Patch #216072 by recidive, David Rothstein, ptalindstrom et al: switched from numeric block IDs to string IDs.

  The short explanation is that Drupal uses a lot of numeric deltas in the block system; blocks are identified by the 'module' and the 'delta'. In early Drupal, delta was numeric, but somewhere along the line it was changed to be possibly a string. In modern Drupal, block overrides are easily done via block-MODULE-DELTA.tpl.php.  The primary motivation to switch to string IDs everywhere is to make these deltas friendlier to themers:

    block-user-0.tpl.php --> block-user-navigation.tpl.php
    block-user-1.tpl.php --> block-user-login.tpl.php

  You get the picture.

- Patch #30984 by webchick, keith.smith, kkaefer, Crell et al: provide descriptions for permissions on the permission administration page.

- Patch #208926 by keith.smith: fixed broken link.  The external link to the RSS specification changed.

#153998 by David_Rothstein and myself: clean up permissions in book, blog, blogapi, forum and locale modules

#196535 by sun, chx, dww: check whether Drupal can issue HTTP requests at all, so we know that this is the cause of problems, not the remote host not responding.

#202425 by keith.smith: standardize reference to block placement page as 'blocks administration page' to avoid any confusion

#197730 by keith.smith: standardize on a much more user friendly cron reference in help texts, explain its importance with more examples in INSTALL.txt

#197314 by vitezslav.smid (as GHOP 39): improve/add/update phpdoc in aggregator, comment and system modules

#200069 by keith.smith: new standard for 'more information' links in module help texts, as the handbook we referred to before was renamed

#197297 by DanW (as GHOP 17), and keith.smith: clean up lots of help texts, update to drag and drop functionality, drupal.module removal, etc

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

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

#174348 by chx: image column was not present in an aggregator_save_feed() query, but it does not have a default value, so we need to include it in the query

#148973 by chx: actually insert an empty value for description, so it is not null, and does not cause a problem for postgres

- Patch #163191 by hswong3i: removed db_num_rows() for compatibility with Oracle and DB2.  Also a performance improvement. (Correct version this time.)

- Patch #163191 by hswong3i: removed db_num_rows() for compatibility with Oracle and DB2.  Also a performance improvement.

#100641 by kkaefer, ChrisKennedy and RobRoy: change 'Submit' buttons to 'Save' to compliy with the desktop metaphor and actually tell what the button does ('we know it submits the form, but what it does?')

#107023 by yas and asimmonds: aggregator was not updating older items because of badly ordered SQL parameters

#154064 by pwolanin: get hook_help() up to speed to menu changes, allowing router path based lookups, and also full path argument lookup with a passed argument array