Note that the above description is incorrect as to what the merge was about.
It is the message that I intended to make. It appears that I accidentaly merged multiple fixes waiting to be reviewed on my private fork.

This reverts commit dce0d2af, reversing
changes made to 63f67f30.

Looks like I broke this in d88df7ea

Yes, this is HUDSON-8656 and not JENKINS-8656.

(recording the previous commit 9d7d0d75 by Richie Vos)

add "since 1.378" in one changelog item

Eclipse package depends on this
<http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/eclipse-jdt>, so I'm doing
monkey-see-monkey-do.

Recording the earlier changes and the integration of the new
executable-war.

Jerome Lacoste reported that 5c91eb1f fixed JENKINS-7745. So marking it as closed.

Having a calendar with the first day of week being Monday (such as in the en_GB locale), setting DoW to Sunday moves the calendar forward whereas in cron it expects the calendar to go backward in time.

 Adjusting this logic.

This change might reveal additional information about why the connection is disrupted.