WordPress weekly digest 4th February to 10th February 2008

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.