#716348 by grendzy and hefox: Documentation of drupal_get_path() and system table missing the fact that 'profile' is stored there now.

#325169 by moshe weitzman: Move t() to bootstrap.inc to stop fatal errors when called from error handlers.

- Patch #325169 by mundanity, Arancaytar, Crell, chx, picco, alexw: move error/exception handler higher up in the bootstrap process.

#281405: Temporarily raise memory requirement to 40M, to cut down on support requests post-alpha. Let's work to get this back to 32M shortly. :)

- Patch #590656 by pwolanin, Pasqualle: harden one-time login links against vulnerability from disclosure of SQL backups, or SQL 'SELECT' injection.

- Patch #661420 by justinrandell, David_Rothstein: made installation of modules much more efficient.

#358815 by David_Rothstein, meatsack, and John Morahan: Fixed performance of drupal_get_install_files() with large file trees.

- Patch #601548 by Damien Tournoud, moshe weitzman: loosen the dependency between t() and the theming layer.

#281405 by quickcel and catch: Update minimum RAM recommendation to 32MB. Would love to remove this patch by the time we ship.

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

#620688 follow-up by chx and effulgentsia: Fixed drupal_static_reset() is broken, with expanded test coverage.

#341140 follow-up by JohnAlbin and chx:  drupal_get_filename() fails for PHPTemplate themes when database is down.

#287647 by mikejoconnor, lilou, cafuego, bjaspan, and robertDouglass: Cast results of hook_schema() to an array to avoid schema corruption.

- Patch #572452 by catch, JoshuaRogers: drupal_get_filename() and drupal_load() should not use drupal_static(). Performance improvement.

- Patch #618938 by pwolanin: fixed Drupal version is not being available until the end of bootstrap.

#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 #84008 by deviantintegral, plumbley, lilou, lambic: fixed timer_read() returns NULL (no value) after timer_stop(). Added timer tests.