WordPress 2.6 released!
A month ahead of schedule, Matt Mullenweg has announced the release of the newest version of WordPress.org: WordPress 2.6. It’s a major iteration, since the last version was only at 2.5.1.
This is because WordPress has taken huge steps forward in terms of becoming a serious content management system (and not just a blogging engine). For example, 2.6 features post versioning — WP saves older versions of your post in your admin area, and you can compare various versions and even revert to older copies of your post.
WP 2.6 comes equipped with Google’s Gears. What this means basically is, once you’ve activated Gears, parts of your WordPress install will be cached on your local computer, thereby making your blog load faster when you access it for editing, maintenance, etc. Gears will make more features available to WordPress in the near future, and this might include offline editing of your blog.
Some minor improvements include the ability to insert captions to images, word count for your posts, drag-and-drop reordering of galleries, etc.
Here’s a 3-and-a-half-minute video for your reference:
To download the latest version of WordPress, click here. For first-time installation, see this guide. For upgrading your old WordPress to the latest, follow these instructions. Don’t worry, they’re painless.
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Whoa! Inserting captions into images FTW!
Interesting—2.6 was released a month ahead of schedule. Did they sacrifice quality just to get the newest version out there for download?
Feh. I’m updating, anyway. This is going to be my first update of my WP install. Wish me luck! ^__^
@Dean — For a piece of software that’s used by millions of people all over the world, I doubt its engineers would sacrifice quality just so they could launch ahead of schedule. I believe they were able to release the newest version due to the huge amount of support the developers have gotten from the WordPress community.
Still, I’m sure there will be bugs — I just hope no major ones! Good luck!
I tried to implement Google Gear on two of my sites, and it failed on both. Hmm… It looks very promising, but if it doesn’t work… well.. let’s just say that I hope I can get it to work!
Must be a browser or OS issue, Bob…
I don’t think so. My browser is FF 3.0, which is supported. My OS is Windows Vista, which is also supported. In both cases, when the Gears software is loading the pages from the site, it gives a 404 error for one file… the exact same file in both sites.
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