WordPress weekly digest 25th February to 3rd March 2008

Firstly, apologies again for this digest post being a bit late – the final push for 2.5 has been in full swing and I took a week out to go on holiday. It was a busy week again for WordPress 2.5, the changes were:

• Changes to do_feed() to ensure that an error page is generated when a non-existent feed format is requested (#5446).
• Introduction of a new image_resize() function (#6005).
• Introduction of get_temp_dir() to allow for the different locations temporary files may be stored (#5984).
• An update to the in_category() function to support category names that are all numbers and add documentation ([7064]).
• Change to generating random passwords for users created during import (#5837).
• A fix to the WXR importer to ensure that tags are imported correctly by name rather than as numbers (#5330).
• A fix to ensure that the current_page_item class is set correctly when listing pages (#2959).
• Introduction of get_post_ancestors() and the addition of the current_page_ancestor class to ancestors of the current page when listing pages (#5662).
• Fixes to the plugin update code to use string comparison to detect version differences (#5978).
• Introduction of post editing collision detection (#6043).
• Changes to switch preg_replace() calls with the e modifier to preg_replace_callback() to improve security ([7056], #5644).
• Update to TinyMCE 3.02 (#6012).
• More updates to the new media library (#5911).
• Lots of updates to the new admin style.

For even more information on some of the other little changes that went in this week you can read the whole weekly trac timeline, look at a complete changelog for trunk or view a diffstat of the changes.