CMS Development Tracking

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

• A Tag Searching interface for the Tag Editor (#5684).
• Removal of any old compatibility functions for PHP 4.2 and 4.3 (#5415).
• I18N updates for the new widgets interface (#5583).
• Changes to increase the memory limit for PHP (#3141).
• Comment feed fixes to ensure that we have got a post before we a querying for the comments (#5185).
• Introduction of a wp_authenticate_user filter ([6685]).
• Addition of the TinyMCE Fullscreen plugin (#5735).
• Add depth arg to wp_dropdown_categories() (#2461).
• Fixes to future post publishing over xmlrpc (#5721).
• Update TinyMCE to v3.0 final (#5674).
• Merging of wp-admin/profile.php and wp-admin/user-edit.php (#5736).
• Changes to allow for multiple database connections (#2722).
• Introduction of a new template tag is_front() which is only true on the front page of a WordPress install (#3682).
• Addition of extra capabilities checks to the xmlrpc code (#5313).

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