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

Addition of a new filter for the attributes in the html link generated by comments_popup_link() (#5247, #5448).
Support for Atom Threading Extensions (#5434).
The addition of documentation for the deprecated functions (#5444).
Layout and usability improvements to the comment moderation page ([6371]).
Saving of tags when auto-saving (#5359).
Completion of the documentation for the taxonomy api (#4742).
Performance improvements for pages (#3614, #5303, #5458).
Improvements to the wxr exporter and importer (#5456, #5454, #5466).
Fixes to register_sidebars to allow multiple sidebars to be registered correctly (#5352).
Addition of a new filter called the_content_export for the post content when exporting (#5456).
Introduction of a pluggable function for random password generation (#5401).
Changes to the login cookie format to make it more secure (#5367).
Suppression of database error messages by default (#5473).

If you would like to read more about the new cookie format then Ryan has written an excellent post – “Secure Cookies and Passwords”

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:

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.

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