CMS Development Tracking

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.