I'm particularly excited by this one: Ian Barber got his hand dirty and wrote the first release of an APC Cache plugin for YOURLS.

A lot of you, beloved users, are using YOURLS to set up public shorteners. Sooner or later you all face the same problem: abuse by spammers, sometimes until your hosting provider shuts down your site. Hopefully, thanks to the plugin API, being abused by spammers is not inevitable destiny and plugins can address that issue.

I know at least 2 plugins on this topic:

If you want to make a public interface for your own YOURLS setup and want a new design to hack from, check @tomslominski's project: Infinity Squared is an open source interface that looks like WordPress' default theme, Twenty Ten.

I'm delighted to announce the availability of the YOURLS 1.5 "Ronnie James Dio" release.