CMS Development Tracking

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.