What began as a couple patches for a minor 2.0.1 bump grew into more extensive 2.1 improvements:

• Trackback URI and Comments: combine display into a single element.
• Don’t display Category in post meta box for Uncategorized posts.
• Fix empty li element by displaying nothing on posts without tags. (Thanks Tim Hamilton.)
• Display dates on posts and comments now honor date format settings in wp-admin -> Settings -> General. (Thanks demetris from op111.net.)
• Remove header_shadow.gif. Alignment changes by a few pixels; the blog title underline is now a CSS border, not an image.
• Fix bug in sp_vallery() gallery shortcode override to handle links and HTML in gallery image captions.
• Fix bug in sp_vallery() that created extra empty gallery div. (See this issue in upstream Sandbox code.)
• Standardize and simplify use of text symbols:
  • [ ] (logged-in user UI elements)
  • | (element separation)
  • - (title element separation)
  • « » (chronological traversal)
• Adopt rel=home in header and footer links to blog’s home page.
• Replace all remaining comments_popup_link() calls with comments_link()/comments_number().
• Don’t show post counts in default sidebar’s Archives and Categories lists.
• A little more prep for gettext internationalization.
• CSS cleanups and simplifications for some double-definitions. (Thanks threesomehour.com.)
• PHP code cleanups.
• (Continued) Re-verification of posts and page templates for hAtom/hCard and XHMTL/CSS validity.

Download 2.1 right here, or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.