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#610234 by Gábor Hojtsy, ksenzee, cwgordon7, David_Rothstein, seutje, marcvangend, sun, JoshuaRogers, markus_petrux, Bojhan, Rob Loach, Everett Zufelt, drifter, markboulton, leisareichelt, et al: Added Overlay module to core, which shows administrative pages in a JS overlay, retaining context on the front-end site.

- Patch #613858 by sun, Dave Reid: fixed drupal_is_front_page() should not call drupal_get_normal_path().

#619666 by effulgentsia, casey, and catch: Changed Introduce new pattern for drupal_static() in performance-critical functions.

#320331 by Dave Reid, dww, John Morahan, cwgordon7, moshe weitzman, c960657, and smoothify: Turn custom_url_rewrite_inbound() and custom_url_rewrite_outbound() into hooks.

- Patch #431976 by mcrittenden, Arancaytar webchick, chx, et al: added a wrapper for ?q=.  No tests.

- 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 #240387 by matt2000 et al: move 'content types' to 'site building' per the UMN usability study results.

- Patch #196862 by earnie et al: make drupal_lookup_path() a tad faster by eliminating an SQL query.

#183690 by Wim Leers: (developer improvement) abstract path matching to drupal_match_path() from block listing, so this gets reusable when path based matching is required

- Patch #34755 by chx et al: faster menu system.  HEAD is temporary broken and there is no upgrade path yet.