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WordPress weekly digest 22nd October to 28th October 2007

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This week the list of changes is quite short as a lot of time was spent on the preparation and testing of the recent WordPress 2.3.1 maintenance release – you can read a detailed list of the changes in my post from Friday.

The changes going into WordPress 2.4 this week have included:

  • A increase in the types of sorting supported by get_terms() (#5245).
  • Separation of taxonomy relationships into separate cache buckets ([6286], [6288])
  • Fixes to the manage posts page to restoring the filtering functionality with the new “infinite posts” feature (#5249)
  • A fix in install-helper.php so that you do not get errors when included from a plugin (#5090)

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

WordPress 2.3.1 in detail

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WordPress 2.3.1 has been released today and includes a number of changes including one security fix, here is a list of most of the changes in detail:

  • Improvements to the email address extraction in wp-mail.php (#5169).
  • An improvement to the link manager to ensure that only user with the manage_links capability can access the page (#4627).
  • A security fix to ensure that edit-post-rows.php cannot be directly loaded to prevent XSS attacks when register_globals is enabled ([6258]).
  • Groupings in the SQL queries used during upgrade to remove errors on duplicate entries in the old post2cat and link2cat tables (#5223).
  • The Sender is set on emails to help on hosts that limit which email addresses can send (#5007).
  • Fixes to category assignment during link import from OPML (#5107)
  • Manifest file for Windows Live Writer so as to enable tagging support (#5023).
  • Performance improvements for the Taxonomy intersection queries (#5137).
  • Exclusion of the post previews from canonicalisation (#5203)
  • Improvements to the handling of the main query to ensure it is saved when calling wp() (#5121).
  • Fix the in-line uploader so that send to editor works with a blank title (#5080).
  • Removal of the case-sensitivity on host names of wp_safe_redirect() (#5114).
  • Changes to the load order in the javascript loader to ensure that Prototype is loaded before jQuery (#5067).
  • Enforcement of the same sanitisation rules for pages as for posts (#5135)

For a complete list of all the changes you can read the branches/2.3 log.