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

• Addition of extra capabilities checks to the xmlrpc code (#5313).
• New filters for comments_open() and pings_open() (#5761).
• Addition of a key on comment_approved,comment_date to speed up the get_lastcommentmodified() mysql queries (#5773).
• Introduction of wp_count_posts() ([6730]).
• More portable and extensible database structure (#4778).
• Renaming of is_front() to is_front_page() to avoid conflict with bbPress (#3682).
• Changes to make RSS 2.0 comment feed GUIDs immutable (#5072).
• New redirect_canonical filter to allow a plugin to cancel a redirect (#5766).
• Introduction of a new pluggable get_avatar() function which defaults to using gravatar (#5775).
• Changes to add the post_password to the WXR export file so that the posts are still protected after import (#4376).
• Update to jQuery 1.2.3 ([6757]).
• Introduction of a new meta box api for adding boxes to the write pages (#5798).
• Introduction of the ability to have random post ordering (#4617).
• Reversion to full content, including content after the more tag, for feeds (#2582).
• A more informative error message when theme files are not writeable (#5783).
• Removal of gzip_compression(). Leave it to the server to handle (#4342).

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 2.5, the changes this week were:

• Update of the jQuery form pluginto the latest version (#5048).
• Addition of mass select functionality to the user editing page (#5592).
• Pass extra information to the filters in get_lastpostdate() and get_lastpostmodified() (#5292).
• Introduction of a new interface for widget management (#5583).
• A switch to jQuery color for fades instead of FAT (#5369).
• Introduction of a newimage uploader (#5609).
• Addition of the ability to re-activate all the plugins deactivated by the deactivate all button (#4176).
• Changes to ensure that the current user information is setup before the init hook fires (#4181).
• Introduction of “Just-In-Time” loading of the tinymce translations (#5605).
• New interface for category addition and setting in the Write->Post page (#5618).
• Documentation for locale.php and pluggable.php (#5621, #5509).
• Fixes for some PHP E_NOTICE messages when WP_DEBUG is enabled (#5607).
• Changes to ensure that post GUIDs are retained when importing from RSS (#5589).
• Introduction of new xmlrpc functions to get a list of valid post and page statuses (#5569).
• Addition of the abilioty to limit the depth of the tree displayed by wp_list_categories() (#2461).
• Reversion of the change to sent the “Sender” in wp_mail() (#5273).
• Optimisation of the SQL query used to determine what urls are awaiting pinging (#5649).

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