update_status 5.x-2.0

This is the first official, stable release of the the 5.x-2.* series. This is very similar to the code that is now in the 6.x series of Drupal core. This contains numerous improvements over the 5.x-1.* series:

• Security releases are flagged on the available updates report, and every administrative page on the site will warn the site administrator when a security update is missing.
• Added the ability to only warn if the site is missing security updates, instead of warning if there are any new official releases available.
• Added optional e-mail notifications when the site is out of date.
• Improved support for modules with more than one branch for a given version of Drupal core.
• More information is now presented on the available updates report, such as available beta releases or releases from other branches, what modules on the site are included in each project, and so on. See the screenshot for some examples.
• The available update report now performs date-based comparisons for development snapshots.
• Anonymous usage statistics are now reported to drupal.org (see #128827 and #165380 for more information).
• Added an uninstall method. It is important that when sites are getting ready to upgrade to Drupal core 6.x that they disable and uninstall the 5.x-2.* version of update_status before upgrading. This will prevent any conflicts or problems, since this functionality is now included in Drupal core's update.module.
• All logic involving sites that deploy directly from CVS has been moved into the CVS deploy module.
• Added fine-grained settings to ignore newer releases of certain projects. This also includes the ability to specify a note as to why a given project or release is being ignored, and the note will be displayed on the available updates report.

For a complete list of changes in the 5.x-2.* series, please see the CHANGELOG.

The specific changes since 5.x-2.0-rc2 are:

• #165695: Added another database update to completely rebuild the menu since the "Check manually" path moved to "admin/logs/updates/check".
• #165638: Improved usability for the "Check manually" link on the update report by wrapping it in () and adding some padding.
• #155483: Simplified the description of the email notification setting.
• #155878: Re-use the same t() string for both the watchdog() and drupal_set_message() when fetching information about available updates.
• Added or updated translations:
  • Czech (cs)
  • German (de)
  • Greek (el)
  • Hungarian (hu)
  • Italian (it)
  • Norwegian (nb)

Note: for the first few hours of its existance, this release had a minor problem where database update 5202 would generate some warning messages on sites using PHP5. These warnings are harmless, and can be safely ignored. However, to avoid confusion and support requests, this problem has been fixed in the tarball with "7a529169eae6cc8b2a1a610157695ca5" as the md5sum.