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WordPress weekly digest 11th February to 17th February 2008

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

Introduction of the beginnings of a plugin update system (#5586).
Changes to allow uploads to be stored outside of the WP path and have custom URLs ([6780]).
A fix for the human readable time offset for future posts (#5817).
Change to using the full slug rather than the abbreviated one when editing (#5816).
Reduction of the number of SQL queries made by wp_count_posts() (#5820).
Changes to make a nonce mismatch fail instead of showing an “Are you sure?” message (#5838).
Improved metadata for atom comment search feeds (#5493).
Allow is_single(), is_category(), and is_tag() to accept arrays of items to test (#5593).
Addition of random order option to wp_tag_cloud() (#5726).
Fixes to the markup generated by the Walker class so that it matches 2.3 (#5844).
Addition of bulk delete to the links manager ([6842]).
Improvements to the performance of generic_ping() (#5855).
Changes to make sure private posts stay private when they are published ( #5881, #4206).
Introduction of more specific moderation emails for {ping|track}backs. (#4986).

On top of all of this there has been a lot of work this week on finishing off the new admin design.

For even more information on some of the other little changes that went in this week you can read the whole weekly trac timeline, look at a complete changelog for trunk or view a diffstat of the changes.

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 2.5, 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.