New plugins Pocket Read It Later Links allows you to automatically display Pocket ‘Read It Later’ links next to your blog posts. WP Marketplace is a marketplace plugin with an easy interface. Updated plugins Exploit Scanner searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames. Jetpack supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com. Socialize gives publishers the ability to selectively add actionable social media/social bookmarking buttons to their posts without having to edit the meta keys/values like most other plugins require. WordPress SEO is an all in one solution to search engine optimize your WordPress blog: SEO titles, meta descriptions, XML sitemaps and much more.

Bouquet is an elegant, simple theme inspired by the beauty found in flowers. Gabriola is a beautiful, bright, natural looking theme using a fresh, crisp color scheme of mint and tea greens and white. Swift Basic is the free version of Swift, a developer friendly and advanced SEO theme with loads of intutive customization options, giving you infinite number of layouts.

New plugins Facebook makes your site deeply social by integrating functionality from Facebook. 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. Share Buttons by Lockerz / AddToAny helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts & pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, StumbleUpon, Digg and many more. 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.

WordPress 3.4 is finally here! All users can now safely update from Dashboard -> Updates or download and update manually, though you should probably backup first, just in case. Right out of the box, users will notice some great new features, like a new theme customizer, Tweet embeds, HTML support in image captions, and dozens of performance improvements. If you run into trouble with WordPress 3.4, stop by the master list of known issues and post to the support forums if your problem isn’t covered there.

WordPress 3.4 RC 3 has been released with just a few lingering issues fixed since the second release candidate. The core developer team is still planning for the final release of WordPress 3.4 to debut some time this week, so it’s time to give this a good solid test, especially if you are a plugin or theme developer. As you test out the WordPress 3.4 RCs, please review this guide to see what you should keep your eyes on. If you find any bugs, please report them, and contact the support forums if you need any help.

Krakatau is a simple, minimalist, readable, and responsive layout. Lavender is a pleasing, feminine theme that would suit any personal blog, travelog site, diary or journal sites, or a multitude of professional or business blogs or websites. Simple Catch is a simple and clean theme.

As WordPress 3.4 draws nearer to its inevitable released, Aaron Campbell and Helen Hou-Sandi have joined the ranks of the Contributing Developers! Their improvements to custom headers and the overall Themes interface will really make WordPress 3.4 stand out. If you’re on this release’s credits list, now’s the time to make sure that your profile actually has a name. Here’s hoping that WordPress 3.4 will be the best release yet!

New plugins jQuery UI Widgets is a simple, clean, and flexible way to add jQuery UI widgets to your site pages. Updated plugins Ad Code Manager allows you to manage your ad codes through the WordPress admin in a safe and easy way. Simple Facebook Connect is a framework and series of sub-systems that let you add any sort of Facebook functionality you like to a WordPress blog. WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Opera Mini, Palm Pre, Samsung touch and BlackBerry Storm/Torch mobile devices.