- Removed target attribute from <a href="">.  Patch by Al.

  clean urls enabled).
- Changed the logic in blog module to handle "blog it" links.

- Bugfix to make parsing http://www.veganporn.com/syndicate-j.pl work.
  Patch by Trent.

- Fixed the links in the admin menu.  Patch by Ax.

- New menu houskeeping.  Prototyped by Zbynek.

  The following modules need updating:
    * glossary module
    * feed module (Breyten's version)
    * mailhandler module
    * notify module
    * project module
    * smileys module
    * admin module
    * style module
    * taxonomy_dhtml module

  To avoid unexpected problems menu_add() is deprecated (it will print an
  error message when used) and menu() should be used instead.

- Everything is using theme("function") now instead of $theme->function().

- Added missing t() function.  Patch by Stefan.

- Applied Ori's format_plural() patch; see mailing list for details.

  NOTE: some modules in the contributions repository might need to be updated.

Great patch from Ulf:

- The href target for a new window is "_new", not "new".

- Generating <div> sections within <p> sections is forbidden by the
  XHTML standard. Using just the right aligned <div> should be
  sufficient and makes XHTML themes possible.
  (Prove at http://blog.rompe.org/ )

- While parsing the header of an RSS feed one should be aware that
  there may be more <title> tags in subsections and that POSIX regular
  expressions are always gready. So make shure we don't get too much.
  (If you agree that using PCRE instead of the POSIX ones would be
  generally a good idea, then I am willing to make the patch, but for
  now I didn't want to mix POSIX and PCRE in one file.)
  (Prove at http://blog.rompe.org/index.php?q=import/feed/43 , try
  this feed without my patch)

- Some RSS 2.0 feeds don't have a per item <link> section but have the
  permalink embedded in the <guid> section. This is not perfectly
  correct and the documentation mentions this possibility only in the
  examples, but since Dave Winer himself implements it this way it
  will happen more than once. So, if there is no link available and
  the guid looks like an address, then use that one.
  (Prove at http://blog.rompe.org/index.php?q=import/feed/22 , try
  this feed without my patch)

- Don't only write eventually new Feed Header information into the
  database but also use them immediatly. Reuse the $feed array that is
  made for it.

- If a feed doesn't provide per item titles, make shure to not produce
  defective markup by cutting the remainder of an entity. Instead of
  just cutting off anything behing the leading 30 characters of the
  cleaned description, it seems slicker to use up to 40 characters and
  split on word boundaries, but not on "&" or ";".
  (Prove also at http://blog.rompe.org/index.php?q=import/feed/22 .
  This feed will have title tags starting on February 1st, but I
  suspect many others without them out there.)

With this patch one could consider Drupals aggregator RSS 2.0 ready.

- Clean URL patch.

- Tidied up the use of check_output().  Might make rendering pages a bit
  snappier (performance improvement).

- Usability improvement: made the access log, referrer logs and popular post
  tables use the new table rendering functions.

- Usability improvement: a couple of strings could not be translated.

- Refactored the administration pages.

- Fixed warning in import module.  Reported by Pete.

o Permission improvements:

   + Removed the "post content" permission and replaced it by more fine-grained permissions such as "maintain static pages", "maintain personal blog", "maintain stories", etc.

o Usability improvements to teasers:

   + Teaser forms are no more.  Teasers are extracted automatically but can also be instructed using a delimiter "---".  Furthermore, when a post it too short for a teaser, the user won't be bother with teaser stuff anymore.

   + Added an option to set the teaser length, or to disable teasers all together.

   + When previewing a post, both the short (if any) and the full version of a post are shown.  This addresses a common complaint; for example, when writing a book page there was no way you could preview the short version of your post.

   + Forum posts can be teasered now.  This is particularly helpful in the context of drupal.org where we promote forum topics.

o Bugfix: replaced all PHP short tags (<?) with long tags (<?php).

o Bugfix: removed hard-coded dependence on comment module.

o Bugfix: when the queue module was disabled, it was not possible to approve updated book pages.

o Bugfix: applied modified version of Marco's node_teaser() fix.

- Committed Marco's block rewrite:

   + Blocks are not longer called if not rendered: major performance
     improvement.
   + Fixed some bugs (preview option was broken, path option was broken).
   + Removed "ascii"-type blocks.
   + Added permission to for "PHP blocks"
   + ...

  NOTES:

   + You'll want to run "update.php":

       ALTER TABLE blocks DROP remove;
       ALTER TABLE blocks DROP name;

   + You'll want to update your custom modules as well as the modules in
     the contrib repository.  Block function should now read:

       function *_block($op = "list", $delta = 0) {
         if ($op == "list") {
           return array of block infos
         }
         else {
           return subject and content of $delta block
         }
       }

  does not have access to post content. (Patch by Pierre Gorissen)

- adds missing links.

- title of "blog it" item is used as default node title.
- added link to news feed admin pages on import_page.
- "blog it" link only shows when the blog module is available.

- removed admin options for queue and comment module if the modules are not
  loaded.
- nodes are now auto promoted when queue module isn't enabled.
- moderation result block is now visible by the node author.

- Clarified the help texts a bit.

- fixed comment flat list view missing 1 comment.
- changed update.php around a bit.
    * security check isn't in effect if the db hasn't been updated.
    * instructions re-organized.
    * fixed some minor updates.
- updated database.mysql done by UnConeD.
- changelog update.

- fixed block permissions.
- fixed user admin page errors: http://www.drupal.org/node.php?id=173.
- cleaned up common.inc a bit: removed format_info, path_img, field_merge.

    * fixed mails not being parsed properly.
    * tracker now shows user name when you view your own recent
      comments.
    * link to submission queue now points to the right place.
    * fixed jabber module.
    * theme is now activated when changed.
- applied Gerhards coding style patch.

- Applied Marco's big patch, including contributions from Moshe:

    + Changed the db_query() API.

    + Wrapped all links in l(), lm(), la(), ..., drupal_url() functions.

    + XHTML-ified some HTML.

    + Wrapped a lot of text in the administrative pages in a t()
      function.

    + Replaced all $REQUEST_URI/$PATH_INFOs by request_uri().

    + Small bugfixes (eg. bug in book_export_html() and clean-ups (eg.
      RSS code).

    + Fixed some bugs in the taxonomy module (eg. tree making bug), added
      new functionality (eg. new APIs for use by other modules), included
      Moshe's taxonomy extensions, and some documentation udpates.

    + ...

- Added about 50 title tags.

- Improved the feed handling which solves "almost duplicate" posts being
  inserted when someone would update his site/feed after we imported it.

- import.module:

    + Improved input filtering; this should make the news items look
      more consistent in terms of mark-up.

    + Quoted all array indices: converted all instances of $foo[bar]
      to $foo["bar"].  Made various other changes to make the import
      module compliant with the coding style.

- theme.inc:

    + Fixed small XHTML glitch

- comment system:

    + Made it possible for users to edit their comments (when certain
      criteria are matched).

    + Renamed the SQL table field "lid" to "nid" and updated the code
      to reflect this change: this is a rather /annoying/ change that
      has been asked for a few times.  It will impact the contributed
      BBS/forum modules and requires a tiny SQL update:

        sql> ALTER TABLE comments CHANGE lid nid int(10) NOT NULL;

    + Moved most (all?) of the comment related logic from node.php to
      comment.module where it belongs.  This also marks a first step
      towards removing/reducing "node.php".

    + Added a delete button to the comment admin form and made it so
      that Drupal prompts for confirmation prior to deleting a comment
      from the database.  This behavior is similar to that of deleting
      nodes.

    + Disabled comment moderation for now.

    + Some of the above changes will make it easier to integrate the
      upcomcing mail-to-web and web-to-mail gateways.  They are part
      of a bigger plan.  ;)

- node system:

    + Made it so that updating nodes (like for instance updating blog
      entries) won't trigger the submission rate throttle.

    + Fixed a small glitch where a node's title wasn't always passed
      to the $theme->header() function.

    + Made "node_array()" and "node_object()" more generic and named
      them "object2array()" and "array2object()".

    + Moved most (all?) of the comment related logic from node.php to
      comment.module where it belongs.  This also marks a first step
      towards removing/reducing "node.php".

- misc:

    + Applied three patches by Foxen.  One to improve performance of
      the book module, and two other patches to fix small glitches in
      common.inc.  Thanks Foxen!

- Small improvement.

- Fixed a problem with the expiration of news items.  Requires a SQL
  update (update.php).

- Fixed typo in the "blog it"-link.  Patch by Mark Cornick.

- Another batch of updates/improvements:

   + introduced basic node permissions ("create", "delete", "update" and
     "view") at the node level: it's up to the "<$node->type>_module" to
     hide gory details (if any).

   + made the "blog it"-feature in the blog and import module work with
     the new node system, in specific with the new centralized forms.

   + made it possible to update blogs.

   + made the page module work with the new node system.

   + various smaller improvements.

- A large batch of updates, amongst them a rewritten node system.  More
  information available on the mailing list.

  easier. Also changed the <? tag to <?php in some cases.

- Removed a node's link ID (lid) as discussed on the mailing list.  See
  'updates/3.00-to.x.xx.mysql' for the required MySQL updates.

- Renamed some "author" fields to "uid" fields for sake of consistency.

- Fixed the coding style of some PHP files.

- Fixed the moderation queue (fairly untested though).

- Re-introduced the temporary SQL table in _node_get().

- Added a missing 'auto_increment' to 'updates/3.00-to-x.xx.mysql'.

- PEAR-ification of Drupal by claw: you can now host Drupal on a wide
  range of databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, and others.

  For additional information and an 'how to upgrade', check the mails
  sent to the mailing list.