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  TODO:
  + The contact.module was broken; a new patch for contact.module is needed.
  + Documentation is needed.
  + The most important modules need to be updated ASAP.

* adds a "feed settings" section to admin/settings where 2 new settings are introduced:
* number of items per feed
* default length of feed descriptions (title only, teaser, full)
* patches all of core to obey the above - including the new aggregator (out) feeds
* adds support for adding namespaces in _nodeapi('rss item') - which means things like iTunes RSS and yahoo's media rss can be implemented by the appropriate modules (i.e. audio.module)
* includes some additional info in the default node feed - specifically the element (links directly to comments) - and dc:creator - to show node author information.

- Patch #13941 by Promotheus6: Atom feeds have a CONTENT and/or SUMMARY tag instead of a DESCRIPTION tag. Currently, if both tags are present the aggregator appends the content of both fields to replace the content of the DESCRIPTION tag.

- Patch #29275 by Uwe: I'm currently trying to get aggregator.module in shape for being used as a planet-like software for a Planet Drupal. Here's a patch which allows the site admin to specify which HTML tags are stripped from feeds (or not). This is hardcoded in aggregator.module right now, the attached 2-line patch (for HEAD) makes it configurable.

  TODO: document the defaults in the PHPdoc comments.

- #22154: Change : in aggregator block IDs to -, the colon is an illegal character and causes problems in CSS.

  TODO: we should write down a couple guidelines for these document them in
        the PHPDoc code of drupal_set_message()!  .

- Patch 20910 by chx: centralize print theme page.

- Fix bug in decode_entities() with double-escaped entities.

- Patch #19451 by JonBob: improved consistency of module descriptions.  We should write guidelines for this -- maybe in the PHPDoc code of the _help hook.

- Patch #16630 by Aldon: usability improvement: made the lifetime of news items configurable.

  We added a 'severity' column to watchdog():
    watchdog($type, $message, $link) --> watchdog($type, $message, $severity, $link);

    * Specify a severity in case you are reporting a warning or error.
    * The $link-parameter is now the fourth parameter instead of the third.

  TODO: document this in the upgrade guide.

- Removed some cruft: left-over xxx_help_page() functions.

- Refactored the queue module: removed the queue module's field from the node table.  With help from Gerhard.

- Slight addition to INSTALL.txt with regard to PHP versions.

- Updated/reworded some node type descriptions as per Boris' suggestions.

- Adding missing {} around a table name in update.php.

   + Moved the block configuration settings to the block administration pages like we did with the other modules (also, administrators had to enable the aggregator blocks twice).
   + Small UI changes to the 'add news feed' page.

  changes are:

  1. Simplified the statistics pages: there are less pages and on the
     remaining pages there is a lot less visual clutter (less columns and
     better presentation).

  2. Reorganized the 'administer - logs' menu: flattened the menu structure
     and removed a number of links.

  3. Improved performance.  Most statistics pages used about 160 slow SQL
     queries which made the statistics pages fairly unusable on my system.
     The new pages use at least 10 times less SQL queries and render much
     faster.  They are actually usable.

  4. There is now a 'track'-tab on node pages, and a second subtrab on the
     user accounts 'track'-tab for people with the 'access statistics'
     permission.  They can be used to resp. track the node and the user.
     This makes the statistics more accessible.

  5. Changed the way watchdog messages are filtered.  This makes it easier
     to introduce new watchdog types.

  6. Reworked the statistics module's permissions.

  7. Less code: 223 insertions(+), 343 deletions(-).

  8. Fixed several glitches: for example, the statistics pages sorted the
     'Name' column by user ID instead of by name.  Unfortunately, it is
     too difficult to backport these to DRUPAL-4-5.

  TODO:

  1. Review the statistics modules help pages.

  2. Help fine-tune the interfaces/views.

  NOTES:

  1. You'll want to run update.php.

- Patch #13443 by Moshe: got rid of the semi-implemented 'page link' feature. All themes currently support primary and secondary links so page links are now deprecated.  Check your contributed modules and update them accordingly.