This is another minor maintenance release that is replacing use of deprecated wp_specialchars function with esc_html, and is added public functions to get and set plugins settings. If no bugs are found, this is the last release in the GD Press Tools Pro 3.9 branch. Next version is 4.0.
A while back I have developed templates system for GD Star Rating plugin, called T2. It was good, but there are some limitations that made it not so easy to use. New version of the system is called T3 and it uses similar approach but with many new things.
A major release for GD Custom Posts And Taxonomies Tools is here. Only Pro version is released with several new features including support for new custom post types template, improved rewriting rules for both on site pages and feeds and more.
After the first part of the benchmark of WordPress 3.0 versus 2.9.2, here is the second part focusing on the admin section of the WordPress and the execution on the client side. Part 3 is coming in a few days and it will be dedicated to testing on the blog side of the WordPress.