New plugins Bootstrap Admin is a clean, minimalistic administration theme based on Twitter’s Bootstrap. Simple Related Posts Widget displays articles from the same category. Updated plugins Sharexy is a powerful social sharing, bookmarking, and blog monetization tool. Yepty is yet another pay per click advertising plugin.

WordPress 3.4.2 has been released. Along with the security fixes, this release addresses almost 20 bugs, including better support for older browsers in the administration area and improved plugin compatibility with the visual editor. This is a security release, so it is recommended for all users. If you run into trouble with WordPress 3.4.2, stop by the master list of known issues and post to the support forums if your problem isn’t covered there.

Autumn Leaf is a rich, textured theme with a leaf background. Commodore is an HTML5 and CSS3 theme in the style of the good old Commodore 64. Priimo is a lightweight, clean, and elegant theme. Seismic Slate is an excellent minimal theme, with a “hiding” menu on scroll. Shiro is a clean and minimal three-column CMS and blog theme.

WordPress 3.5 has entered early development and will be featuring the new Twenty Twelve default theme. If you’re curious about what went into the new default theme, designer Drew Strojny took a reverse approach to this in his talk at WordCamp San Francisco 2012, How not to Design a Default Theme. Currently, Twenty Twelve is available to WordPress.com bloggers if you want to play around with it. It will also be available via the official Theme Directory for WordPress.org bloggers shortly, and included with the release of WordPress 3.5.

New plugins BookViewer allows you to show eBook sample pages. Teleport allows you to use keyboard shortcuts throughout your site. Updated plugins Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. Ban Hammer prevents people from registering with any email that is listed under your comment moderation blacklist.

BlackBird is a uniquely designed, professional, responsive and beautiful theme with easy customization options and beautiful text styles. Mag is an attractive theme designed to be reminiscent of a post card, and would ideally suit a travel blog or website. StartupWP is a startup theme for anyone looking to build their first website with ease and power. WPFoodTheme is a green-based theme designed for recipes.

New plugins BreezingForms is an enterprise form builder. MoodThingy is a plugin that any blogger can use to track the emotional feedback of an individual blog post or article. Updated plugins Jetpack allows you to supercharge your WordPress site with powerful features previously only available to WordPress.com users. StatComm provides realtime statistics on your blog, collecting information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers, OS and more. Theme-Check allows you to run checks on the current theme before uploading to WordPress. This plugin uses the same API and is kept more or less in sync with the WordPress.org uploader tool.

BlackMesa is a graphically intense theme with alternating, semitransparent headline-boxes, parallax moving backgrounds and beautiful text styles. Picturesque is an elegant photoblogging theme that emphasizes your photography.