WordPress weekly digest 3rd December to 9th December 2007

It has been a busy week again for WordPress 2.4, the changes this week were:

• A number of changes to remove unused variables (#5418).
• A change to allow plugins to handle admin page access failures (#5379).
• A change to ensure that wp-mail.php doesn’t issue a 500 error if no messages are available to post (#5420).
• Exposure of the post_status over xmlrpc to allow desktop blogging clients to be aware of things like private posts (#4982).
• Refactoring of next_post_link and previous_post_link (#5411).
• Optimisation and documentation improvements to the filter and action handling code(#5338).
• Improvements in the AJAX fade colours used with the admin pages to make them more consistent (#5423).
• Changes to update_option to remove unnecessary trimming of string options (#4781).

For even more information on some of the other little changes that went in this week you can read the whole weekly trac timeline.