WordPress 2.7.1 Released

WordPress 2.7.1 has been released consisting of some bug fixes, listed below. For more information and downloads please go to WordPress.org
* Ticket 4632 Remove empty “By: ” line for plugins without an author specified
* Ticket 6058 Permalink box below Title shouldn’t shift page
* Ticket 6478 index.php file in the plugins folder makes the Dashboard fail
* Ticket 6489 Revisions do not respect time zone offset
* Ticket 7527 Inline Documentation for wp-admin/includes Files
* Ticket 7789 Add new link fails silently
* Ticket 8058 Please add get_previous_comments_link() and get_next_comments_link() functions.
* Ticket 8317 New installs: admin has user_level 0
* Ticket 8405 WordPress produces invalid comment feeds
* Ticket 8494 XMLRPC returns category name instead of category description
* Ticket 8526 Bad Preview Link In WordPress 2.7 With object-cache.php present
* Ticket 8535 role & capabilities/menu/user_can_access_admin_page()

* Ticket 8548 Theme preview fails when theme in subdirectory
* Ticket 8577 Attempts to use curl cause warnings on some hosts
* Ticket 8580 Automatic plugin ftp value stored improperly if FTP failed. causing function to break for good
* Ticket 8581 Tag not closed in theme editor when the file does not have a description
* Ticket 8583 If you’re using paged coments, ‘first’ is selected in the options and wp_list_comments is used, then the comment permalinks on the first page will be broken
* Ticket 8605 POST-request, but content-length missing -> 411
* Ticket 8607 show_name docs say it defaults to 1, but it defaults to 0
* Ticket 8609 Tag cloud order priority is broken
* Ticket 8614 With wp_list_categories child categories not excluded when parents are excluded
* Ticket 8626 Namespace missing in Atoms-Comments Feed
* Ticket 8627 Emoticons count as links in comments
* Ticket 8630 Wrong Paged Comments Logic
* Ticket 8641 Improvements to is_ssl()
* Ticket 8642 Canonical redirect of feed URLs with suffixes is wrong
* Ticket 8645 edit link form typo
* Ticket 8666 postbox-bg.gif is missing
* Ticket 8672 XML RPC method bug in 2.7 in wp_newComment()
* Ticket 8677 “Right Now” dashboard box needs a clearing break at the bottom
* Ticket 8680 WP-Cron Inline Doc Corrections
* Ticket 8682 Missing capability to override Walker_Cat*
* Ticket 8684 Contributor level users can delete all spam
* Ticket 8687 phpdoc updates for secret-key in pluggable.php
* Ticket 8688 phpdoc updates for wp_generate_password
* Ticket 8694 Word 2007 can’t retrieve categories
* Ticket 8700 “selected” argument doesn’t work for “none” and “all” options in wp_dropdown_categories
* Ticket 8707 php notices in debug mode for mass post edit
* Ticket 8708 Remove paging information from Atom comment feed ids
* Ticket 8715 wp_page_menu doesn’t seem to get link_before link_after
* Ticket 8721 attach logic is overenthusiastic: inserting a single item from Media Library sets post_parent of every item listed in Add Media overlay
* Ticket 8724 WP reinstaller doesn’t work
* Ticket 8740 Pages do not respect Automatically close comments setting
* Ticket 8745 language_attributes always check for ‘xhtml’, never for ‘html’
* Ticket 8750 ‘Draft Saved’ current_time not reflecting timezone setting in the edit area
* Ticket 8757 Upgrade or install 2.7 clean urls defect with magic quotes
* Ticket 8767 Refactored filters to avoid potential XSS attacks
* Ticket 8771 Distinguish between approved / unapproved comments in All Comments list for IE7
* Ticket 8774 Backwards compatability for add_management_page inadvertently strips other URL params
* Ticket 8784 Multiple categories in rss feed broken in wordpress 2.7
* Ticket 8787 Error in URL checking in http.php
* Ticket 8809 Active plugins table rows are not highlighted
* Ticket 8810 Add white-space:nowrap to plugins table action links
* Ticket 8812 javascript error in thickbox viewing updatable plugins (TB_WIDTH is undefined)
* Ticket 8821 Error in function paginate_comments_links with permalinks
* Ticket 8832 function get_categories() doesn’t work properly when using child_of and number parameters
* Ticket 8836 Add class to “comment-reply-link” to facilitate JS manipulation
* Ticket 8848 ACP: fatal error when a plugin issues chdir()
* Ticket 8869 Update Inline Documentation for get_gmt_from_date()
* Ticket 8881 URL column in Edit Links removes www. from domains that end in www.
* Ticket 8921 Gears install link should be available to every user
* Ticket 8933 jQuery/Thickbox Issue IE7/8
* Ticket 8944 MT import causes empty feed
* Ticket 8945 Add class to “edit_comment_link” and “edit_post_link”
* Ticket 8978 Drafts are published in the past
* Ticket 8986 Regular expression syntax errors – missing preg pattern delimiters
* Ticket 8988 When accessing admin dashboard over https the use of gravatars makes the security appear broken
* Ticket 9033 Add a filter to the post states list

Keep up all the good work WordPress team and the world shall rejoice.