Version bump to 2.0.0-alpha-1.
Remove outdated base stylesheets.
Remove Superfish (drop-downs, nav-bar) support.
Drop calls to the removed stylesheets from the Hybrid Core Styles feature.
Remove Entry Views extension.
Remove Custom Field Series extension.
Remove calls to the Entry Views and Custom Field Series extensions from the Hybrid class.
Finally remove the old Hybrid Core SEO component.  Good riddance!
Remove the filter on the comment form defaults.  It's time to use core and drop this legacy code from early versions of the Hybrid theme.
Remove filter on comment type avatars.  Themes can decide this on their own.
Deprecated `hybrid_avatar()` and make it a simple wrapper for `get_avatar()`.
Completely delete soft-removed functions prior to the 1.5 branch.  Soft-remove many currently-deprecated functions.  General cleanup of deprecated.php.
Adds a general.php file for some common template functions.  This is being used for the file to house shortcodes that we have no equivalent functions for.  Consider the file name temporary; it might change during development.
Drop the theme footer settings.  This means deprecating some functions, removing the customize.php functionality, and remove this from the theme settings page altogether.
Drop the about theme meta box.
Overhaul of the Hybrid Core theme settings feature.  This changeset drops the meta box functionality in favor of the plain ol' WordPress Settings API.  Theme authors should now use register_settings_section() and register_settings_field() as appropriate.

For more information on using the Settings API, see: http://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_API

Note that this feature is in a state of change during development and may be different before 2.0.0 final.  I'd like to move everything over to using WordPress Theme Mods if possible.
Drop the 'hybrid-core-sidebars' theme feature.  This allows us to get rid of extra text strings that are no longer needed.

Introduces the hybrid_register_sidebar() function, which makes it simple to register an HTML5 sidebar.
Remove the 'hybrid-core-menus' theme feature.  This just adds weight to translations.  Plus, it's already really simple to add nav menus with WordPress.
Deprecated hybrid_site_title().
Deprecate hybrid_site_description().