Archive for October, 2009

Upcoming Bug Hunts!

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

As we near completion of the 2.9 milestone, it’s that time of dev cycle again, when we ask all you community developers who’ve been putting off contributing to core to dust off your dev environments and help us get closer to being release-ready. How? Bug hunts! Yes, that time-honored tradition (in the time of WordPress, [...]

Plugin Compatibility Beta

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

The number one reason people give us for not upgrading to the latest version of WordPress is fear that their plugins won’t be compatible. As part of our continuing efforts to make WordPress core, plugin, and theme upgrades as painless as possible, Michael Adams developed and launched a beta of a new “Compatibility” feature in [...]

WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

As you know over the past couple of months we have been working on the new features for WordPress 2.9. We have also been working on trying to make WordPress as secure as possible and during this process we have identified a number of security hardening changes that we thought we worth back-porting to the [...]

Getting involved with the 2.9 beta testing

Monday, October 12th, 2009

We have been hard at work now for a few months on the new features that will be coming in WordPress 2.9, and we are nearing the time when the first beta version will be available. We’ll need your help with beta testing the new features and ironing out any bugs.
There are a number of [...]