Peter Westwood puts out a weekly digest of Wordpress updates. Wordpress 2.5 is on the brink of being released, but here are a few of the highlights which I think were worth highlighting. This week’s digest has some particularly interesting updates.

• Introduction of the beginnings of a plugin update system (#5586).
• Changes to allow uploads to be stored outside of the WP path and have custom URLs ([6780]).
• Allow is_single(), is_category(), and is_tag() to accept arrays of items to test (#5593).
• Reduction of the number of SQL queries made by wp_count_posts() (#5820).
• Addition of random order option to wp_tag_cloud() (#5726).

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