##UPDATE## The patch I provided has been committed. Please use the official version of this module found here: http://drupal.org/project/publishcontent
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####Creates granular publish/unpublish permissions in Drupal without granting Administer Nodes permission.####
Patched version of the Drupal "Publish Content" contrib module by malaussene.
See #1913638 for the D6 backport issue and #899656 fo the original issue.
This patch has already been rolled into the D& Dev version of the module. So if you're using D7, just use the dev version found on the publichcontent module page.