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It has been a busy week again for WordPress 2.5, the changes this week were:

• Performance improvement to the outgoing trackback processing code. (#5699).
• Refactoring of the code in wp-login.php to pull it out into re-usable functions (#5405).
• Improvements to the APP implementation to handle updated timestamps correctly (#5680).
• Improved usability when selecting which name should be displayed publicly for a user (#5508).
• Ensure that the global $post is restored when the query is reset (#5439).
• Improvements to the caching of post-meta to ensure that the cache is correctly invalidated (#5718).
• Changes to the IP address sanitisation code so as to allowIPv6 addresses as well (#4579).
• The beginnings of a new uploader ([6659]).
• A new Manage -> Tags interface (#5684).
• Bumping of the PHP version required to 4.3 (#5416).

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

It has been a busy week again for WordPress 2.5, the changes this week were:

• Changes to the blogger importer to have a better statement of requirements (#5220).
• Updates to get_sidebar() to allow for multiple named sidebars (#5615).
• Removal of the redundant and slow check on $now in the SQL queries in get_lastcommentmodified() (#5650).
• Changes to the url sanitisation to allow for parenthesis (#5668).
• Fixes to url_to_postid() to ensure it doesn’t mangle the url it is trying to match (#5661).
• Refactoring of the admin code to make the WP_User_Search class available to plugin authors (#5111).
• Changes to wp_tag_cloud() to ensure that it returns the array if 'format=array' is specified (#5155).
• Extensions to the html tags and attributes that kses will allow in posts (#5617).
• Upgrade of the jQuery library to 1.2.2 (#5492).
• Improvements to the plugin error detection code to ensure that the errors are correctly displayed (#5673, #5658).
• Documentation updates for kses.php and pluggable.php (#5641, #5509).
• Initial migration to TinyMCE v3.0 RC1 (#5674).
• New functionality to allow for editing of post slugs within there permalink context (#5679).
• Addition of more do_action calls to the xmlrpc functions (#5686).
• Changes to the APP implementation to ensure that timestamps can be updated on already published posts (#5680).

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

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

• Improvements and refactoring of the WXR importer including supporting zipped xml files (#5522).
• Changes to allow the salt used by WordPress in password generation and other areas to be overridden using a define ([6478]).
• Documentation for author-template.php, bookmark.php, bookmark-template.php, template-loader.php, compat.php, canonical.php, comment-template.php and file level phpdoc for some other files. (#4393, #5523, #5521, #5513, #5510, #5526, #5528, and #5527 ).
• Improved implementation of the javascript addLoadEvent function to speed up the execution of javascript on admin pages ([6482]).
• Changes to wp-mail.php to escape the error messages when displaying them to avoid a possible XSS attack (#5484).
• Changes to ensure that the post password is only exposed by the xmlrpc method metaWeblog.getRecentPosts to users with rights to edit a post (#5535).
• Changes to the information exposed the wp.getAuthors xmlrpc method to reduce the information exposed and add a capabilites check (#5534).
• Addition of extra capabilites checks to xmlrpc methods ([6504]).
• Addition of extra capabilites checks to APP server ([6508]).
• Changes to validate_file() to improve its traversal attempt detection when running on windows ([6521]).
• Changes to the magic number detection for gettext file loading for better support of 64bit systems (#3780).
• Fixes to the tag extraction code so as to not strip ’s’ from either end (#5539).
• Updated javascript libraries -Prototype 1.6.0 and script.aculo.us 1.8.0 (#5543).
• Introduction of deprecated function and file use tracking functionality to allow for theme and plugin developers to easily identify what is deprecated. (#4361).
• Better documentation for the_author() and prep_atom_text_construct() ([6515], [6516]).
• Final deprecation of comments_rss() and create_user() ([6517]).
• A change to avoid variable expansion in the invalid $table_prefix error message (#5546).

This week the list of changes is quite long event though a lot of time was spent on the preparation and testing of the recent WordPress 2.3.2 maintenance release for which you can read a detailed list of the changes here – don’t forget to upgrade!

You can read more about the support for theme and plugin developers to help identify what deprecated functions or files they might be using in this post – “Tracking deprecated functions”

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