I know I’m late, this is just to keep track of the main releases as I have always aimed to.

WordPress 2.9 provides the smoothest ride yet because of a number of improvements under the hood and more subtle improvements you’ll begin to appreciate once you’ve been around the block a few times. WordPress 2.9 came about packed with a lot of new features from which the WordPress Dev team has pointed out the following:

Global undo/”trash” feature, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also eliminates those annoying “are you sure” messages we used to have on every delete.

Built-in image editor allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images to show them who’s boss. This is the first wave of our many planned media-handling improvements.

Batch plugin update and compatibility checking, which means you can update 10 plugins at once, versus having to do multiple clicks for each one, and we’re using the new compatibility data from the plugins directory to give you a better idea of whether your plugins are compatible with new releases of WordPress. This should take the fear and hassle out of upgrading.

Easier video embeds that allow you to just paste a URL on its own line and have it magically turn it into the proper embed code, with Oembed support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv (and more in the next release).

Read more here: http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9/

WordPress team is working hard on the new WordPress release, the WordPress 2.7 Beta 3 has been released and there are made over 160 changes in total since the latest release, that of WordPress 2.7 Beta 2. My congratulations to Automattic that is doing its best to give us the pleasure to use a great CMS and blogging tool. I want just to tell you that the new admin interface is great – I have been using WordPress 2.7 since release of beta 2 version. I am going to write an article on my experience with that so, don’t miss it, subscribe now.

Find below some of the changes on the new release:

• Switch position of “Save Draft” and “Preview” buttons in publish module.
• File upload support for MS Office 2007+ file formats.
• Media upload buttons won’t show if the user doesn’t have the upload capability.
• Canonical redirects only do yes-www or no-www redirection for domains.
• Shift-click checkbox range selection improvement.
• Add New User page now separate.
• Tag suggest only suggests tags (not other taxonomy terms).
• QuickPress shows “Submit for Review” if user cannot publish.
• Private posts/pages, and password-protected posts/pages are rolled into new “Visibility” section of publish module.
• Numerous style improvements and refinements.
• All admin notices now go under the page title.
• PHP Notice fixes.
• Dashboard widget options now properly save.
• Menu fixes.
• New design for Quick Edit.
• Canonical feed URL fixes.
• Walker fixes.
• An update for Hello Dolly.
• Plugin installer updates.
• Numerous font updates.
• Updated login logo.

If you have already installed Beta 1 or Beta 2, you can update to Beta 3 via the Tools -> Update menu. If you have problems, or if this is your first time in the 2.7 beta ring, you can download and upgrade the old fashioned way.

Two short remidners dear WordPress users: the first is a small update to one of the libraries WordPress uses and the secod is a call for help by WordPress for cool icon designers. Read on:

A vulnerability in the Snoopy library was announced today.  WordPress uses Snoopy to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard.   Although this seems to be a low risk vulnerability for WordPress users, we wanted to get an update out immediately.  2.6.3 is available for download right now.  If you don’t want to download the whole release to get the security fix, you can download the following two files and copy them over your 2.6.2 installation.

1. wp-includes/class-snoopy.php
2. wp-includes/version.php

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The icons: We’ll need icons for each of the main navigation sections, plus a matching pair of list/excerpt view icons for the table screens like Edit Posts. That’s a total of 13, and for the navigation icons we’ll also need a larger size for use in the screen headers. Some of the sections have natural iconography, while others may be more challenging. The sections are: Dashboard, Posts, Media, Links, Pages, Comments, Appearance, Settings, Users, Plugins, Tools.

Interested? Send us an email and tell us why you want to design the icons, and include a link to your portfolio. How we wind up choosing an icon designer will depend on how many people respond, but we’ll keep you posted on the process. For now, send in portfolio links by Saturday night, October 25, 2008. We’ll review them over the weekend and get in touch with people on Monday. Hopefully we can be designing by early next week.

This is it. First update your WordPress installation and second, if you are a great icon designers, than go and tell the WP world that you really are.

Wow, the new WordPress 2.7 looks great. WordPress development team have posted a post today about the WordPress 2.7 User Interface. A lot of improvements have been made and many new features have been introduced. The new version 2.7 seems very promising. I will give it a try very soon and perhaps post a longer review about it.

For now just enjoy the preview of the administration panel. Designers have made a really good job on this. I am sure the functionality will be great too. Thanks very much WordPress.

This posts covers the fisrt public introduction for WordPress 2.7. However, there have been made some updates since than. Please find the updates below:

Updates:

• WordPress Usability Test Report
• WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 Goes Alive
• WordPress 2.7 Beta 2 Goes Alive

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Good news for all, WordPress 2.6 is out of the forge, well baked and with a lot of new ingredients. They say at WordPress.org Dev Blog:

Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: (the way I like it ) you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.

Let us get immediately to new feature.

1. Post Revisions: WordPress 2.6 now saves your previous posts that you revise, i.e. at any time in the future you can restore, if you want, a previous copy of the post or page. You can even compare between the.

2. Press This: Press this is great now. Very flexible and neat.

3. Image Caption: Image caption is great. That is what I have missed from not using NextGen Gallery. Now that WordPress 2.6 has that I am very happy with that.

4. Theme Preview: Theme Prwview is nicer, you can now have real previews of themes not having first to activate them.

5. Gears: When I heard that Automattic implemented Gears in WordPress.com blogs, I was hoping that would do that even in self-hosted blogs and they did. Blogs now can run a lot faster. Thanks!

6. WordCount: WordPress now counts the number of words you write in the editor. That is great!

7. Media Drag & Drop: Now you can change the positions of the files in the media by just drag & drop.

8. Plugin Activation: Now you can active all plugins and exclude the ones you do not like to.

9. Gravatars: Now you can choose between a lot of default avatars for your commenters that do not use gravatar service.

For more and more details read here at WordPress.org Dev Blog.

Do not forget to download WordPress 2.6 here.

Good news for all WordPressers. WordPress 2.6 Release Candidate 1 is born at the Ryan Boren’s blog and you can download it here 2.6 Release Candidate . They think that WordPress 2.6 will be ready for release on Monday.

Surprisingly enough this news has not flashed at WordPress.org official blog as version 2.5 did. Let’s hope everything is going well at Automattic.