b5ed3199 already caught linkage errors but then unconditionally returned false from Util.isSymlink, which is wrong;
we want to fall back to the generic File.canonicalPath comparisons in this case.

There are several incompatibilities in XStream 1.4 that resulted in our
changing the core, but according to the text search on all the public
plugins, none of these changes affect the 600+ plugins we have today.

However, it is still possible that there are some parts of XStream 1.3
that plugins depend on but the core doesn't depend on --- we won't be
able to tell those problems at this point.

Not sure what has happened --- perhaps some of the markers were off and
that confused the update script?

Will need to watch out for the next RC run.

Fixes: Maven2 builds with non-standard test mojos failed.

[FIXED JENKINS-16844] MenuItem.post allows context menu items like Build Now to send a POST request.
Currently just shows a hover notification; TBD if there are use cases for displaying the response.

Traditionally, matrix axis values are only exposed as "build variables", and it was up to individual build steps and others to treat them equally like environment variables.

However, in practice, this distinction between environment variables vs build variables didn't serve any useful purposes, and the down side (of some plugins only expanding env vars in the ${VAR} notation and not build variables) was probably bigger than whatever benefit this distinction was supposed to bring.

In this fix, we are exposing matrix axis values also as environment variables. This will make them recognizable from plugins that only expand environment variables, such as parameterized trigger plugins as indicated in the original bug report.

This was motivated by pull request #701 but fix was made differently.

Introduced ${ITEM_FULL_NAME} to address the ticket without causing the
backward compatibility problem.

This is done by introducing a new base type 'BuildDiscarder' that's
extensible. Plugins can implement their own logics.

This reverts commit e2168722.

Fixed the HTTP request thread saturation problem with Winstone.

eval("") is no-op in IE but window.execScript("") isn't.
So bring the uniformity outside