id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
22167,Categories revert to default when scheduled posts are published,danielbachhuber,nacin,"The issue is that a scheduled post's categories are dropped when it's published. check_and_publish_future_post() calls wp_publish_post():

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/post.php#L2882	

which, in turn, gets a WP_Post object, changes the status, can calls wp_insert_post():

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/post.php#L2863

but, because post_category isn't a part of the WP_Post object, the categories default to default

r21942 seems to be the culprit. This is reproducible on wpcom and in trunk. ",defect (bug),closed,normal,3.5,General,3.5,major,fixed,,