WordPress 2.2 Development is now Open

I guess, most of us who are on WordPress, have either already updated the WP version to 2.1 or planning to do so. You should know that the development of 2.2 is now open and here is a quick list of new things you can look forward to in 2.2 release of WordPress.

» TinyMCE 2.0.9 - WP 2.2 will feature 2.0.9 release version of TinyMCE. This should be good for most WP bloggers who use the built-in editor for writing articles.

» Prototype 1.5.0 - It’s an easy-to-use toolkit for class-driven development and also an Ajax library for easy web application development. My guess is that it might be used to enhance some stuff in the administration interface of WP, that will make it easy to operate.

» Script.aculo.us 1.7.0 - script.aculo.us provides easy-to-use JavaScript libraries for cross-browser user interface.

» jQuery 1.1.1 - jQuery is a JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages.

» WP XML-RPC API (WP-specific API for working with pages, authors, and categories)

» Atom 1.0 Feeds and Atom Publishing Protocol support.

» Better MySQL UTF-8 support.

» User cache streamlining and an Improved options caching.

» Plugin sandboxing - Many WP users do not know what to do when the plugin they upload causes some Fatal errors. Sandboxing a plugin will provide a way to load a plugin in sandbox mode such that if it throws an error, it won’t be activated.

Version 2.2 of WordPress should be more easy and fun to work with these new features!