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WordPress 2.9.1 Release Candidate 1

{ Posted on Dec 30 2009 by Ryan Boren }

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Categories : Development, Releases

Thanks to everyone who tested 2.9.1 Beta 1. We’re following that up with Release Candidate 1. RC1 contains a few more fixes, bringing the number of fixed tickets up to 23. If you are already running Beta 1, visit Tools->Upgrade ...Read More »

Setting Scope

{ Posted on Dec 26 2009 by Jane Wells }

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Categories : Development

Merry Christmas! One of the things that was discussed at the core commit team meetup was release scope (and scope creep). Now that 2.9 is out and it’s time to start thinking about 3.0, we think it would be appropriate ...Read More »

WordPress 2.9.1 Beta 1

{ Posted on Dec 24 2009 by Ryan Boren }

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Categories : Releases

Unfortunately, the recent 2.9 release triggered a bug in certain versions of PHP’s curl extension. With these versions of curl, scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly. To fix this problem as well as a handful of other, lesser ...Read More »

WordPress 2.9, oh so fine

{ Posted on Dec 19 2009 by Matt }

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Categories : Releases

I want to make you mine, all the time… oh wait. Hello. I’m here on behalf of the entire WordPress development team and community to announce the immediate availability of WordPress version 2.9 “Carmen” named in honor of magical jazz ...Read More »

2010: A Theme Odyssey

{ Posted on Dec 19 2009 by Jane Wells }

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Categories : 2010, Development, default, kubrick, theme

After the video from the core team meetup was posted, the topic that seemed to get the most attention on Twitter and various community sites was Matt’s announcement that there would be a new default theme in 2010, so I ...Read More »

2.9 Release Candidate 1

{ Posted on Dec 17 2009 by Matt }

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Categories : Development

We’re at that exciting point in WordPress development where the dev team feels like version 2.9 is complete and ready for the world. If you’ve been waiting for your moment to pitch in, it’s now. First we need tech savvy testers ...Read More »

Core Team Meetup Results

{ Posted on Dec 15 2009 by Jane Wells }

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Categories : Development

To get started, here’s a short video from the meetup discussing some of the topics and 2.9. In the opening pan, you’ll see (L-R) Andrew Ozz, Mark Jaquith, Jane Wells, Peter Westwood, and Ryan Boren, followed by Matt Mullenweg as ...Read More »

Canonical Plugins (Say What?)

{ Posted on Dec 08 2009 by Jane Wells }

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Categories : Development, canonical, plugins

There have been a lot of references to “canonical plugins” over the past year, especially at WordCamps by Matt, but we haven’t really posted anything official about the idea, nor have we really made much progress beyond discussions about how ...Read More »

A Brief Intermission

{ Posted on Dec 06 2009 by Jane Wells }

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Categories : General, core, meetup, planning

Just a heads up that Trac commits will be pretty low over the next couple of days, as all the core committers are in Orlando: Matt, Ryan, Andrew, Peter and Mark. We all came for WordCamp Orlando (fun!) and are ...Read More »

WordPress 2.9 Beta 2

{ Posted on Dec 02 2009 by Andrew Ozz }

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Categories : Development, beta

Version beta-2 of WordPress 2.9 is ready for your testing pleasure. You can download it or use the WordPress Beta Tester plugin and auto-upgrade a test installation. See all changes since beta 1. Read More »

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