Archive for June, 2009

WordPress 2.8.1 Beta 2

Friday, June 26th, 2009

2.8.1 Beta 2 is ready for testing.  Download it, check out the changes since beta 1, and review all tickets fixed in 2.8.1.  We especially suggest, recommend, and beg that plugin developers test their plugins against beta 2 and let us know of any issues.  Notable fixes in beta 2:

Translation of role names fixed
wp_page_menu() defaults [...]

WordPress 2.8.1 Beta 1

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

We’ve started work on the first maintenance release to 2.8.  2.8.1 will fix a handful of bugs that turned up in 2.8.  Today we’re releasing the first beta of 2.8.1.  Download it, and check out the bugs fixed so far.  Here are some of the notable issues that are fixed in beta 1.

Certain themes were [...]

2.8 Release Jazzes Themes and Widgets

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

I’m very excited to announce to everyone that the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8 “Baker,” is immediately available for download. 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor of [...]

WordPress 2.8 Release Candidate 1

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

With Release Candidate 1, we think WordPress 2.8 is ready and complete.  Download it, test it, and tell us what you think.  If you don’t uncover any bad bugs, 2.8 will be released on Wednesday the 10th.
If you’re interested in what has changed since beta 2, consult the changelog.

Summary of #wordpress-dev IRC meetup for 20090603

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Next Wednesday, June 10th, is the target date for the release of
WordPress 2.8.  Tickets against the 2.8 milestone that are not
blockers will be postponed to another release.
WP 2.9 will require MySQL 4.1.2 or greater.  This is raised from the current requirement of 4.0.
Checks will be added to the automatic upgrader that will prevent upgrading to [...]