Changes in WordPress 2.0.5

Here is a Brief Preview on what is coming in Wordpress 2.0.5

• is_feed() status is preserved when handling 404s
• manually entering pages greater than the number of pages for a given post now shows the highest numbered page
• improved security in wp-db-backup plugin
• user description is no longer HTML-entity converted going into the database
• fix for rel=”nofollow nofollow” repetition
• default category is no longer checked by default (Saving this one for 2.1… won’t be in 2.0.5 final)
• plugins are sorted by plugin name, instead of filename
• multi-line options in /wp-admin/options.php are preserved
• the authors dropdown is now sorted by display_name
• the_meta() properly ignores keys that start with an underscore
• post meta keys and data are escaped properly on the post screen
• users are prevented from entering strings that will be interpreted as serialized data when coming out of the database
• make_clickable() no longer adds links within links
• error suppression
• i18n fixes

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