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Drupal 7.42, 2016-02-03

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- Stopped invoking hook_flush_caches() on every cron run, since some modules

  use that hook for expensive operations that are only needed on cache clears.

- Changed the default .htaccess and web.config to block Composer-related files.

- Added static caching to module_load_include() to improve performance.

- Fixed double-encoding bugs in select field widgets provided by the Options

  module. The fix deprecates the 'strip_tags' property on option widgets and

  replaces it with a new 'strip_tags_and_unescape' property (minor data

  structure change).

- Improved MySQL 5.7 support by changing the MySQL database driver to stop

  using the ANSI SQL mode alias, which has different meanings for different

  MySQL versions.

- Fixed a regression introduced in Drupal 7.39 which prevented autocomplete

  functionality from working on servers that are not configured to

  automatically recognize index.php.

- Updated the Archive_Tar PEAR package to the latest 1.4.0 release, to fix bugs

  with tar file handling on various operating systems.

- Fixed fatal errors on node preview when a field is displayed in the node

  teaser but hidden in the full node view. The fix removes a

  field_attach_prepare_view() call from the node_preview() function since it is

  redundant with one in the node preview theme layer.

- Improved the description of the "Trimmed" format option on text fields

  (translatable string change, and minor UI and data structure change).

- Numerous small bug fixes.

- Numerous API documentation improvements.

- Additional automated test coverage.