+### Core CiviCRM
+
+- **Activity display, switch to more performance getActivities function (from
+ deprecatedGetActivities)
+ ([12559](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/12559))**
+
+ This change improves performance and alignment on the activity tab.
+
+- **Upgrade symfony in lockfile to be 2.8 which is supported version of 2…
+ ([12633](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/12633))**
+
+ This change upgrades symfony from 2.6 to 2.8.44.
+
+- **Improve styling of address block on summary screen
+ ([12723](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/12723))**
+
+ This changes the display of the address block to be more consistent with the
+ way that email and website are displayed on a contact.
+
+- **Foreign key for civicrm_custom_field.option_group_id
+ ([12706](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/12706))**
+
+ This change adds a foreign key for option group id to the custom field table.
+
+- **Added Pseudoconstant for phone and website type
+ ([12727](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/12727))**
+
+ This Adds a Pseudoconstant for phone and website type.
+
+- **Contact summary - adjust block width when editing
+ ([12708](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/12708))**
+
+ This makes it so that on the inline Contact edit form, when a user clicks to
+ edit a section that section grows to allow the edit fields to be full sized.
+
+- **Added Pseudoconstant tag for visibility
+ ([12705](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/12705))**
+
+ This change improves the API Explorer by adding a Pseudoconstant tag for
+ visibility. This makes it so that civicrm_option_value.visibility_id is now a
+ dropdown field with the visibility option group options.
+
+- **Use static cache for UFMatch lookups to improve performance
+ ([12628](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/12628))**
+
+ This is a performance improvement, specifically it cuts down on load time for
+ the contact summary page.
+
+- **Replicate fix on PR #12643 for pledge report
+ ([12685](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/12685))**
+
+ This change makes it so on the "Pledged not Paid" report one can filter by
+ smart groups.
+
+- **[dev/core#217](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/issues/217) Allow
+ replacement of PrevNextCache implementation (for search screens)
+ ([12664](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/12664) and
+ [12663](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/12663)) (Preliminary Work)**
+
+ This change makes it so for the purposes of search-caching CiviCRM no longer
+ fills or reads the columns 'entity_table' and 'entity_id2' in the
+ civicrm_prevnext_cache table and makes the cacheKey column simpler and more
+ consistent.
+
+- **[dev/core#302](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/issues/302) End of life
+ plans for 5.x php versions & planning for 7.0 EOL
+ ([12625](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/12625)) (preliminary
+ work)**
+
+ This change Bumps the recommended php version to 7.1 and min recommended to
+ 7.0
+
+- **Add SQL modes to developer tab
+ ([12656](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/12656))**
+
+ This change adds SQL Mode info to the developer tab on reports.
+
+- **don't add query to developer tab if we are downloading the data
+ ([12666](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/12666))**
+
+ This is a performance improvement for downloading reports for users who have
+ permission to view the developer tab on reports.
+
+- **filter current employer report by all groups
+ ([12643](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/12643))**
+
+ This change makes it so one can filter the Current Employer report by all
+ groups. Prior to this change one could onlt filter this report by static
+ groups.
+
+### CiviCase