New plugins
Clip Art Illustration Search and Insert allows you to enter search terms for illustrations and images that you may wish to use in your posts.
Featured Posts Scroll will scroll a set of posts (either automatically or via user click) in any desired location within a template or a post.
WP Display Header lets you specify a header image for each post individually from your default headers and custom headers.
WP Save Custom Header lets you save and reuse uploaded header images.
Updated plugins
eShop is an accessible Shopping Cart plugin.
IE6 Upgrade Option displays a warning message, simply and politely informing the user that their browser is out of date while providing links to download newer, more optimal browser choices.
Proper Network Activation is a small utility for MultiSite, which ensures that plugins are correctly activated accross your network.
Out of all of those plugins, possibly the most significant one for me personally is the IE6 Upgrade Option.
As a website designer and developer, IE6 causes me a nightmare with compatibility issues and requires me to set aside an additional few hours to solve the problems for every project. The sooner that everyone in the world upgrades to a newer, more user friendly browser, the better it will be for everyone.
On another note however, it’s great to find a blog that gives constant updates on WordPress upgrades and releases. This will allow me to keep my fingers on the pulse when it comes to finding out additional options when building in WordPress, something that will hopefully increase my ability and therefore quality of build for every project.