Changes in WordPress 2.0.5

Here are some of the changes coming in WordPress 2.0.5:

• is_feed() status is preserved when handling 404s #3019 [4227]
• manually entering pages greater than the number of pages for a given post now shows the highest numbered page #3039 [4228]
• improved security in wp-db-backup plugin [4226]
• user description is no longer HTML-entity converted going into the database #3069 [4230]
• fix for rel="nofollow nofollow" repetition #2995 [4233]
• default category is no longer checked by default #2938 [4310] (Saving this one for 2.1… won’t be in 2.0.5 final)
• plugins are sorted by plugin name, instead of filename #2412 [4323] [4324]
• multi-line options in /wp-admin/options.php are preserved #2456 [4331]
• the authors dropdown is now sorted by display_name #2370 [4365]
• the_meta() properly ignores keys that start with an underscore #2478 [4368]
• post meta keys and data are escaped properly on the post screen [4376]
• users are prevented from entering strings that will be interpreted as serialized data when coming out of the database #2591 [4384] [4395]
• make_clickable() no longer adds links within links #3228 [4385] [4387]
• error suppression #2331 [4341], #2745 [4328], #1999 [4315], #2759 [4287], #3179 [4280]
• i18n fixes #3109 [4239]

This is not an exhaustive list… just the important ones, or the ones I thought people would care about.

Testers, check the wp-testers list. There is a release candidate for you to try out.

Update: WordPress 2.0.5 has been released! I’ve created a set of unofficial 2.0.4-to-2.0.5 upgrade files (changed-files-only ZIP, diff, list of changed files) as I have with the previous two 2.0.x releases.

Update 2: Anyone experiencing Server 500 errors (or anything related to 302) in the admin screen should see this post for more details.