#102040 by Jose A Reyero. Clean up search menu items, fixing .../search/user under certain permissions.

#100516: CSS preprocessor to cache and compress all .css files. Benchmarks show up to 40% faster page loads.

- Patch #92992 by webchick and neclimdul: clean up documentation that is superseded by the new 'by module' administration dashboard.

  the most important 404s and 403s.  This makes the watchdog data easier to
  use.  Improved consistency of the 'amdminister > logs' section.

- Patch #77919 by chx, eaton, moshe, et al: enable programmaticaly submitted forms via the pull model.

See: http://drupal.org/node/64279#t-placeholders

- Patch #74326 by Eaton, Royboy, chx, et al: building $node->body with arrays like FAPI for viewing.

  Once again, we're paving the path for CCK in core ... :)

#67648 by craines and pwolanin, always go to search pages for searching (particularly a problem on 404 pages)

   + reorganized ?q=admin/settings
   + deprecated the _settings hook

#56457 by chx: The search box that can be displayed by some themes (e.g. bluemarine) was not working.