diff --git a/wp-admin/includes/schema.php b/wp-admin/includes/schema.php
index 72157c41e8..f5309a3f6d 100644
--- a/wp-admin/includes/schema.php
+++ b/wp-admin/includes/schema.php
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ function populate_options() {
 	if ( !__get_option('home') ) update_option('home', $guessurl);
 
 	// Delete unused options
-	$unusedoptions = array ('blodotgsping_url', 'bodyterminator', 'emailtestonly', 'phoneemail_separator', 'smilies_directory', 'subjectprefix', 'use_bbcode', 'use_blodotgsping', 'use_phoneemail', 'use_quicktags', 'use_weblogsping', 'weblogs_cache_file', 'use_preview', 'use_htmltrans', 'smilies_directory', 'fileupload_allowedusers', 'use_phoneemail', 'default_post_status', 'default_post_category', 'archive_mode', 'time_difference', 'links_minadminlevel', 'links_use_adminlevels', 'links_rating_type', 'links_rating_char', 'links_rating_ignore_zero', 'links_rating_single_image', 'links_rating_image0', 'links_rating_image1', 'links_rating_image2', 'links_rating_image3', 'links_rating_image4', 'links_rating_image5', 'links_rating_image6', 'links_rating_image7', 'links_rating_image8', 'links_rating_image9', 'weblogs_cacheminutes', 'comment_allowed_tags', 'search_engine_friendly_urls', 'default_geourl_lat', 'default_geourl_lon', 'use_default_geourl', 'weblogs_xml_url', 'new_users_can_blog', '_wpnonce', '_wp_http_referer', 'Update', 'action', 'rich_editing', 'autosave_interval', 'deactivated_plugins', 'can_compress_scripts', 'page_uris', 'update_core', 'update_plugins', 'update_themes', 'doing_cron', 'random_seed', 'rss_excerpt_length', 'secret', 'use_linksupdate', 'default_comment_status_page', 'wporg_popular_tags', 'what_to_show', 'rss_language');
+	$unusedoptions = array ('blodotgsping_url', 'bodyterminator', 'emailtestonly', 'phoneemail_separator', 'smilies_directory', 'subjectprefix', 'use_bbcode', 'use_blodotgsping', 'use_phoneemail', 'use_quicktags', 'use_weblogsping', 'weblogs_cache_file', 'use_preview', 'use_htmltrans', 'smilies_directory', 'fileupload_allowedusers', 'use_phoneemail', 'default_post_status', 'default_post_category', 'archive_mode', 'time_difference', 'links_minadminlevel', 'links_use_adminlevels', 'links_rating_type', 'links_rating_char', 'links_rating_ignore_zero', 'links_rating_single_image', 'links_rating_image0', 'links_rating_image1', 'links_rating_image2', 'links_rating_image3', 'links_rating_image4', 'links_rating_image5', 'links_rating_image6', 'links_rating_image7', 'links_rating_image8', 'links_rating_image9', 'weblogs_cacheminutes', 'comment_allowed_tags', 'search_engine_friendly_urls', 'default_geourl_lat', 'default_geourl_lon', 'use_default_geourl', 'weblogs_xml_url', 'new_users_can_blog', '_wpnonce', '_wp_http_referer', 'Update', 'action', 'rich_editing', 'autosave_interval', 'deactivated_plugins', 'can_compress_scripts', 'page_uris', 'update_core', 'update_plugins', 'update_themes', 'doing_cron', 'random_seed', 'rss_excerpt_length', 'secret', 'use_linksupdate', 'default_comment_status_page', 'wporg_popular_tags', 'what_to_show', 'rss_language', 'language');
 	foreach ( $unusedoptions as $option )
 		delete_option($option);
 
diff --git a/wp-admin/options.php b/wp-admin/options.php
index e141995cef..5677251788 100644
--- a/wp-admin/options.php
+++ b/wp-admin/options.php
@@ -87,7 +87,6 @@ if ( !is_multisite() ) {
 } else {
 	$whitelist_options['general'][] = 'new_admin_email';
 	$whitelist_options['general'][] = 'WPLANG';
-	$whitelist_options['general'][] = 'language';
 
 	if ( apply_filters( 'enable_post_by_email_configuration', true ) )
 		$whitelist_options['writing'] = array_merge($whitelist_options['writing'], $mail_options);
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index aab13c4e3c..04afbfed79 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ $wp_version = '3.5-alpha-21548';
  *
  * @global int $wp_db_version
  */
-$wp_db_version = 21501;
+$wp_db_version = 21551;
 
 /**
  * Holds the TinyMCE version