Tag Archives: Releases

WordCamp Atlanta

By Dougal | Published: January 9, 2010

As I begin writing this, Jane Wells is delivering her keynote at WordCamp Atlanta, speaking about the upcoming changes in WordPress 3.0. On the one hand, WordPress releases are ’serial’, so an 3.0 release doesn’t necessarily have any bigger changes than when we move from 2.8 to 2.9. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Community, Development, p52, Programming, wcatl, wordcamp, WordPress | 6 Comments

WordPress 2.8.1 Coming Soon

By Dougal | Published: June 18, 2009

Right on the heels of version 2.8, we will be seeing a WordPress 2.8.1 release soon. There are several minor bugfixes in so far, mostly dealing with tweaks to plugin and menu management. But the big problem driving a quick update is a bug in the core upgrade feature. It seems that in the case where the upgrade can’t be completed for some reason, the upgrade feature was deleting the wrong files when it attempted to clean up. Oops!

On the bright side, when this did happen, it would only delete files that are part of the core package, not any of your plugin or theme files. So the failure could be fixed pretty easily, by just manually re-installing the 2.7.1 or 2.8 files from a zip archive. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged bugfixes, core, updates, Upgrades, WordPress | 33 Comments

WordPress 2.7.1 Released

By Dougal | Published: February 11, 2009

The official WordPress 2.7.1 release is now ready for download. The announcement on the WordPress Development Blog is short and to the point:

2.7.1, the first 2.7 maintenance release, is now available. 2.7.1 fixes 68 tickets. You can automatically upgrade from 2.7 to 2.7.1 via the Tools->Upgrade menu, or you can download the package and upgrade manually.

Consult the list of fixed tickets and the full set of changes between 2.7 and 2.7.1 for details.

I was going to highlight some of the changes here, but really there aren’t any major things worth pointing out. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged bugfixes, WordPress, wp27 | 20 Comments

WordPress 2.7.1-beta1 tagged in SVN

By Dougal | Published: February 3, 2009

There hasn’t been an official announcement yet, but I noticed that SVN was tagged with WordPress 2.7.1-beta1 the other day. Though there have been many patches in the 2.7 branch since the last release, most of what I’ve seen appears to be pretty minor bugfixes (though one patch jumps out at me). [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Beta, patches, svn, testing, WordPress, wp27 | 6 Comments

WordPress 2.7 Released

By Dougal | Published: December 11, 2008

Well, that didn’t take long

With a few last minute fixes since Release Candidate 2, WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” is officially released. This is probably one of the most ambitious releases to date, in particular due to the radically redesigned backend interface. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged comments, crazyhorse, features, moderation, sticky, ui, updates, Upgrades, usability, WordPress, wp27 | 14 Comments

WordPress 2.7 RC 2

By Dougal | Published: December 10, 2008

WordPress 2.7 RC 2 is now available. There have been nearly 150 bugfixes since RC1, including improvements to the backend styling, RTL fixes, core and plugin updater fixes, improvements to categegory and tag handling, and much more. Barring any major new bugs being discovered, this will likely be the last release candidate before the official 2.7 release. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Beta, bugfixes, testing, ui, updater, WordPress | 4 Comments

WordPress 2.7 Coming Soon!

By Dougal | Published: December 3, 2008

WordPress die-hards everywhere are anxiously awaiting the official release of WordPress 2.7, which should be very soon now. A few days ago, WordPress 2.7 RC 1 was announced, and this Friday, Automattic will roll out the latest code on wordpress.com to help flush out any remaining issues that need to be addressed. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged admin, compatibility, drainhole, icons, Plugins, ui, WordPress, wp27 | 17 Comments

WordPress 2.6.5 Released

By Dougal | Published: November 25, 2008

The WordPress team released WordPress 2.6.5 earlier today. This release addresses a potential XSS (cross-site scripting) attack under some server configurations, plus adds some bugfixes for some other minor issues. As noted in the official announcement, there was no official 2.6.4 release. There was an attempt to fool people into downloading a fake release under that number, so it has been skipped in the official release numbering, to avoid confusion.

I would like to take this opportunity to point out the WordPress project entry on Freshmeat. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Blogging, Bugs, fixes, freshmeat, Security, Software, WordPress, xss | 3 Comments

WordPress 2.6.2-beta1

By Dougal | Published: August 29, 2008

It looks like there’s going to be another point-release of WordPress coming soon. WordPress version 2.6.2-beta1 was just branded in svn a short while ago. . [...]

Posted in Announcements, Community, WordPress | Also tagged Beta, bugfix, Software, WordPress | 28 Comments

WordPress 2.6 Released

By Dougal | Published: July 15, 2008

The release of WordPress 2.6 is now official. In addition to the features I highlighted previously, Ryan has details on his blog about the improved support for SSL, and some new helper functions which will be useful for plugin and theme authors. And the official dev blog post has details on other new features. One of the more interesting things that I didn’t yet know about was that the Press This bookmarklet has some nifty autodetection which will make it easy to automatically embed content from sites like YouTube and Flickr.

In addition to the new features, I’d also like to point out that there has been a recent effort to improve the inline source documentation (using PHPdoc). [...]