Improved DX (Developer Experience)

These patches clean up really annoying API things or otherwise make Drupal development more of a joy. If you spend lots of time staring at code, check out some of these patches.

• Unify and rewrite module_rebuild_cache() and system_theme_data()
• Standardize static caching
• New variable defaults to improve performance and help developers
• Data API: first steps
• Blocks system refactoring
• API clean-up: Array-itize file_scan_directory()'s parameters
• Fix the pluggable mail system framework

See also: All patches marked "DX"

Fixed

• Standardise taxonomy load/save/delete functions on objects
• Make checking for node edit forms easier
• Remove $op from hook_nodeapi()
• Remove $op from hook_user()
• modify file_scan_directory to include a regex for the nomask.