New Plugins
Wordpress External Cron
Allows you to setup a cron to fetch any page on the server
PuSHPress
This plugin adds PubSubHubbub ( PuSH ) support to your WordPress powered site. The main difference between this plugin and others is that it includes the hub features of PuSH, built right in. This means the updates will be sent directly from WordPress to your PuSH subscribers.
Block Bad Queries
Protect WordPress Against Malicious URL Requests
Image Space Media
The ISM plugin optimizes your Wordpress blog for Image Space Media’s in-image advertising technology. With the ISM plugin, Wordpress users can seamlessly integrate Image Space Media’s in-image advertising solution into their website and generate ad revenue.
Easily navigate pages on dashboard
Display a folder tree of your pages that is easy to expand and contract on your Dashboard. Designed for people that use Wordpress as a content management system.
MySQL Profiler
WordPress is extremely flexible. However, flexibility generally brings about the issue [...]

Light Folio

Light Folio is a clean clean and light theme with a combination black and white color.
CleanTech

CleanTech is a clean, two column and elegant theme with support for threaded comments designed to focus your content.
Ultima

This is a 2-column, soft-colored, rounded theme that totally aims at content and nothing else.

A bookmarklet to access the admin menu of WordPress from your browser’s bookmark bar.

New Plugins
123 Flash Chat
123 Flash Chat WordPress Plugin can be used to create your own chat room in WordPress. It allows you to insert chat room to your sidebar, with either a lite chat client or a link to standard chat client in popup mod. And you can define the width and height of 123 Flash Chat as well as its skin & language. The chat room displays a “hosted by 123flashchat.com free of charge” message.
Asynchronous Widgets
Allows you to have any registered widget on your WordPress.org-powered site be loaded asynchronously via an AJAX call.
WP-Tabbity
Allows authors to create one or more tab groups containing one or more tabs, animated by the WordPress-included version of jQuery.
WP Function Reference
Provides a box on the dashboard with a list of the functions that are available for you to use in your Wordpress installation
Disable WordPress Updates
Disables the theme, plugin and core update checking, the related cronjobs [...]

DarkMood

The DarkMood Theme is a free dark greenish theme 980px wide with two Sidebars and an Option Page to populate the Footer.
Expressivo

Expressivo is a three-column theme with two righthand sidebars – going to a single sidebar on single posts and pages. With Cufon embedded fonts for post titles, threaded and paged comments – you can also replace the header completely with your own image.
Bright Light

Bright Light is a two columns, fluid width WordPress theme with support for custom top navigation. It also has built-in support for social icons.
5 Grunge Wordpress Themes

Themes are a little bit dark, a little bit dirty, and very grungy. Widget-ready and gravatar-enabled

By now you have surely read the news of the release of BudyPress 1.2 (which now will work with single WordPress.org blogs, previously limited to WordPress MU) and this dev blog announcement from Jane last evening about another plugin Andy wrote that lets you use your present theme with BuddyPress.
I have always been of the opinion that this blog, its content, its collection of authors and most of all, its community of readers, is a prime candidate for BuddyPress. Having a common signup between comments, ratings, forums and blog posts would be a fantastic feature. This news is the first step in making those features a reality. We will start working on our test version of this blog very soon.
Are you thinking about trying BuddyPress? What is your greatest concern in adding BuddyPress to your blog? What is the greatest benefit?

Improvisation is the name of the game, and we tend to do a lot of it with plugins and themes. In that process we tend to modify functions by adding more variables to incorporate changes in them. However, unlike most of the other languages, PHP allows users to set default values for variables passed to a method too.

New Plugins
Flickr Digest
A simple to use WordPress plugin based on Flickr API which digests all your photos posted in last X days in a single post periodically.
Feed Thumbnails
This plugin simply adds your post thumbnails to your RSS feed as enclosures. Nothing else to it.
Simple Twitter Connect
Simple Twitter Connect makes it easy to integrate your site with Twitter, in a wholly modular way.
Updated Plugins
Hikari Email & URL Obfuscator
Hikari Email & URL Obfuscator plugin obfuscates emails and URL links, to hide them from spam harvesters and Search Endigne crawlers. It uses ROT13 or cc8b to encode each link while PHP is building the page, then uses JavaScript to decode it and show it to the user. If JavaScript is not available, it uses CSS to hide them.
Rico Tabbed Menu
This is a simple plugin to create a tabbed menu in a post using Rico Ajax.
FAQ You
A simple FAQ plugin where you can create [...]