What's new with plugins and Bukkit?

Haven't done anything server related in almost a year.

What sorts of changes to Bukkit have been mode? I've noticed some different things that can be done in game that I don't remember before and the plugin codes seem more clean.

And what plugins are out there now that are a must-have?
By this I mean things in the category of like Permissions, LWC, WorldGuard, etc.
Any other interesting newer plugins you want to mention are worth hearing about as well regardless of their purpose or complexity.

Also, while I'm at it does anyone know of a real basic weather plugin that simply will let me toggle rain on/ off? Weathercontrol seems to be dead and the other popular one I tried did too much for my wants.

Thanks in advance

 

Guardian is really the only one that has been recently groundbreaking. Other than that go the plugins page and type : "Hunger Games"

 

VariableTriggers plugin is a must

 

Stop spamming that LexLaiden it's really annoying.
Anyway, use PEX for permissions.
If you want to play tag look below