Does anyone know the status of these plugins in 2.3?

https://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/08/28/wordpress-23-beta-1/

I’m also interested in learning about how scary an upgrade of 2.1.3 to 2.3 directly will be. I’ve not upgraded to 2.2 due to many problems with Podpress.

Thank you for thinking about my questions.