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Any bug reports need to be added as a comment here, or emailed to wordpress@dd32.id.au. There are some current known bugs with some of my plugins with 2.9.

Just one suggestion though… since WordPress added the Constant to define WP_HTTP_BLOCK_EXTERNAL checking HTTP logging gives an “error” result and this:
Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in Z:\www\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\core-control\modules\core_control_http_log.php on line 318

This is correct, of course, if the external blocking is working but you may want to consider extending echo implode(‘, ‘, $the_request->transports); to check if http transports are open and return an appropriate result if they aren’t. This will avoid confusion for non-dev users who see “error” as a code error and don’t necessarily understand its exactly the right result if external blocking is working.