more flexible ways to set up bound parameters and return types;
in particular, a :func:`.text` can now be turned into a full
FROM-object, embeddable in other statements as an alias or CTE
using the new method :meth:`.TextClause.columns`.
[ticket:2877]

table and column names would fail if the name contained non-ascii
characters. [ticket:2868]

with conjunctions, e.g.
``None`` :func:`.expression.null` :func:`.expression.true`
:func:`.expression.false`, including consistency in rendering NULL
in conjunctions, "short-circuiting" of :func:`.and_` and :func:`.or_`
expressions which contain boolean constants, and rendering of
boolean constants and expressions as compared to "1" or "0" for backends
that don't feature ``true``/``false`` constants. [ticket:2804]

elements with a ``__clause_element__()`` method properly.
[ticket:2849]

so that the custom type isn't exposed to an operation that is against the
"impl" type's constraint, [ticket:2842]
- this change showed up as some recursion overflow in pickling with labels,
add a __reduce__() there....pickling of expressions is less and less something
that's very viable...

:func:`.foreign` on a :class:`.Column` before association with a parent
:class:`.Table` could produce issues related to the parent table not
rendering within joins, due to the inherent copy operation performed
by an annotation. [ticket:2813]