Update as of 9/05/2012
* Implemented encryption of the credit card name and expiration date for the payment method "Credit Card (saved)"
* Implemented console utility `dev/tools/migration/get_aliases_map.php`, which generates map file "M1 class alias" to "M2 class name"
* Implemented automatic data upgrades for replacing "M1 class aliases" to "M2 class names" in a database
* Implemented recursive `chmod` in the library class `Varien_Io_File`
* Improved verbosity of the library class `Magento_Shell`
* Migrated client-side translation mechanism to jQuery
* Performance tests:
  * Improved assertion for number of created orders for the checkout performance testing scenario
    * Reverted the feature of specifying PHP scenarios to be executed before and after a JMeter scenario
    * Implemented validation for the number of created orders as a part of the JMeter scenario
    * Implemented the "Admin Login" user activity as a separate file to be reused in the performance testing scenarios
  * Implemented fixture of 100k customers for the performance tests
  * Implemented fixture of 100k products for the performance tests
    * Enhanced module `Mage_ImportExport` in order to utilize it for the fixture implementation
  * Implemented back-end performance testing scenario, which covers Dashboard, Manage Products, Manage Customers pages
* Fixes:
  * Fixed Magento console installer to enable write permission recursively to the `var` directory
  * Fixed performance tests to enable write permission recursively to the `var` directory
  * Fixed integration test `Mage_Adminhtml_Model_System_Config_Source_Admin_PageTest::testToOptionArray` to not produce "Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTML(): htmlParseEntityRef: expecting ';' in Entity" in the developer mode
* GitHub requests:
  * [#43](https://github.com/magento/magento2/pull/43) -- implemented logging of executed setup files
  * [#44](https://github.com/magento/magento2/pull/44)
    * Implemented support of writing logs into wrappers (for example, `php://output`)
    * Enforced a log writer model to be an instance of `Zend_Log_Writer_Stream`
  * [#49](https://github.com/magento/magento2/pull/49)
    * Fixed sorting of totals according to "before" and "after" properties
    * Introduced `Magento_Data_Graph` library class and utilized it for finding cycles in "before" and "after" declarations
    * Implemented tests for totals sorting including the ambiguous cases
Update as of 9/13/2012
* Implemented the option to enable the single store mode in the system configuration, which simplifies the back-end GUI:
  * Hiding scope labels from the system configuration
  * Hiding the scope switcher from the CMS management pages and the system configuration
  * Hiding scope related fields from the system configuration
  * Hiding scope related columns and fields from the sales pages (order, invoice, shipment pages)
  * Hiding scope related fields from the promotions
  * Hiding scope related fields from the catalog pages
  * Hiding scope related columns and fields from the customers management page
  * Hiding scope related columns and fields from the customer and customer address attributes management pages
* Implemented the history management for the Visual Design Editor
* Implemented the user interface for themes management, which allows to list existing themes and add new ones
* Replaced all usages of the old JavaScript translations mechanism with the new jQuery one
* Refactored methods with high cyclomatic complexity
* Converted some surrogate integration tests into functional Selenium tests
* Converted some surrogate integration tests into unit tests
* Fixes:
  * Fixed inability to install application with a prefix defined for database tables
  * Fixed displaying fields with model name in the payment methods settings
  * Fixed performance degradation of the back-end menu rendering
  * Fixed absence of the success message upon newsletter template creation/deletion/queueing
  * Workaround for occasional segmentation fault in integration tests caused by `Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Setup_Migration`
* GitHub requests:
  * [#51](https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/51) -- fixed managing of scope-spefic values for Categories
  * [#56](https://github.com/magento/magento2/pull/56) -- removed excessive semicolon in the CSS file
  * [#60](https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/60) -- fixed taking bind parameters into account in `Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Db_Collection_Abstract::getAllIds()`
  * [#61](https://github.com/magento/magento2/pull/61) -- relocated declaration of the "Google Checkout" payment method into `Mage_GoogleCheckout` module from `Mage_Sales`
Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/magento/magento2 into patch-checkouttranslation