Hot off the presses is the release of WordPress 1.5.1. There is a Changelog available on the Codex which gives some highlights, a full list of submitted bugfixes on the mosquito bug tracker, and even more pedantic changeset details in the repository.
Here are some of the main new features/fixes that matter to me:
- Database query optimizations
- Improved Conditional GET support (I lobbied a lot for this)
- Fixes for plugin menu hooks
- Admin UI improvements
- Extended ping support
One thing that’s neat about the extended ping support: For each server in your “Update Services” list, WordPress will first attempt an extended ping, and if that fails it will fall back to a standard ping (we aren’t the first to do this). In case you aren’t sure what the distinction is, a standard ping just sends your blog’s name and URL. The extended ping also sends your RSS feed URL and can support the idea of separate “home page” and “blog” addresses. And of course, we’ve updated Ping-O-Matic to support extended pings, as well.
The new developer hooks are nice, but broke a few plugins (including mine) which depend upon the functions declared in pluggable-functions.php. I’ve written up quick instructions for plugin developers affected by this change: http://fortes.com/2005/05/14/updating-wordpress-plugins-for-151
Opps, sorry for that slip. :p
Oh, thanks you very much, Dougal. I’ve been looking for such a plugin.
Installed
Julian, do you mean you want to be able to execute PHP code in “static” pages managed by WP? If so, you probably want the PHP Exec plugin.
Does that mean we could now create new pages and use the php code for the links and archives? If it is the case, that would really be great.
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WordPress 1.5.1
Well guys, WordPress 1.5.1 has been released and you can download it now from here. I will most likely be upgrading later, but I will let everyone know.
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post ) both break the news on WordPress’s 1.5.1 release. Changes include improved i18n and pinging support, better database caching and of course the usual share of bug fixes. Congratulations to the development and testing teams.