WordPress weekly digest 14th January to 20th January 2008

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.