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December 17, 2009 / dreamsburnred

WordPress 2.9 Ready for Release Very Soon

Good news! WordPress 2.9 hit release candidate status!

WordPress 2.9 brings tons, and tons of new features, here is some;

  • MySQL 4.1.2 or greater now required (up from 4.0)
  • Trash feature. So your posts, pages, comments and attachments can be restored in-case you accidentally delete them.
  • Image editing. So you can re-size the picture within the post.
  • Easier video embedding
  • First post is now Welcome instead of Hello World!
  • Canonical redirects, and Canonical pages support
  • Speed improvements in jQuery JS
  • Canonical post thumbnails
  • Tons, and TONS more.

Who knows it could be out by the end of the week, or the end of the year! :)

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  1. steppinout / Dec 17 2009 7:37 am

    I’m waiting for the final released. Look forward for speed improvement. Thanks.
    .-= steppinout´s last blog ..8 Domain Parking / Maintenance Mode WordPress Themes and Plugins =-.

  2. Tinh / Dec 17 2009 6:53 pm

    I also hope to get the final one and ideally it should be released before New Year event. Just a note that you should use math antispam and recaptcha is not friendly like me who is sort sighted. Thanks
    .-= Tinh´s last blog ..2.9 Release Candidate 1 =-.

    • dreamsburnred / Dec 17 2009 7:08 pm

      Click the audio button to get a audio question. Ya before 2010 hopefully.

  3. Jayce / Dec 17 2009 8:33 pm

    Looking forward for it. ;)
    .-= Jayce´s last blog ..How to hack Facebook account profile =-.

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