- Patch #298600 by chx, justinrandell, Damien, et al: make module_implements work regardless of bootstrap phase.
- Patch #324443 by dww: update XML parsing of project information to take advantage of PHP5 XML parser.
#258089 by merlinofchaos and dvessel: Allow themes to have preprocess functions without a corresponding .tpl.php file.
- Patch #323391 by Damien Tournoud: made initialization of the variables an explicit bootstrap phase.