Issue #1912602 by dawehner, damiankloip, dagmar, tim.plunkett, bdone: Changing view access from 'Permission' to 'Role' causes AJAX error message re getRoles().
Issue #2152735 by chx: Migrate process plugin: extract.
Issue #2154563 by chx:  Migrate process plugin: flatten.
Revert "Issue #2154563 by chx:  Migrate process plugin: flatten."

Oops. :P This is why I should not try and fix docs. :P

This reverts commit 9beae4fe1735281ea34190cd403d44494fb98257.
Issue #2154563 by chx, webchick: Migrate process plugin: flatten.
Issue #2018319 by yched, swentel, pcambra: Remove field_read_field(s)() and field_read_instance(s) in favor of entity_load() and entity_load_multiple_by_properties().
Issue #1976172 by chx, andypost: Comment entity acquired and releases the different locks.
Issue #1874498 by tim.plunkett, dawehner, jibran, benjy: Provide and use API methods for retrieving base plugin and derivative names from block plugin IDs.
Issue #2154589 by Wim Leers: Edit breaks when the entity title is promoted to the page title (discovered by backporting).
Issue #2155665 by Wim Leers | yched: Update field_valid_language() calls in edit.module.
Issue #2155889 by tim.plunkett: Remove Editor::label().
Issue #2146517 by TR: Remove annotation 'use' statements from all core classes.
Issue #2156161 by juampy, klausi, jhodgdon: Add basic_auth module to MAINTAINERS.txt and issue components.
Issue #2157787 by fago: Durations are not primitive.
Issue #2154709 by Gábor Hojtsy: 'No translatable fields' link points to misleading place.
Issue #2160117 by sun: Remove/convert remaining calls to variable_get/_set/_del().
Issue #2108679 by ianthomas_uk, sun: API documentation: Convert my_module_menus examples in menu.api.php to CMI.
Issue #732022 by vijaycs85, Wim Leers, dawehner, nod_, kscheirer: Drupal_add_tabledrag() still using drupal_add_(js|library)(), should return array for #attached.
Issue #2151457 by Wim Leers, amateescu, msonnabaum: Comment pager breaks the render cache.
Issue #916086 by jhodgdon, mcarbone, pwolanin, Albert Volkman: Search_excerpt() doesn't highlight words that are matched via search_simplify().