WordPress 2.5 Released!

WordPress - new release and site redesignWordPress 2.5 has been officially released! :D Rejoice, oh blogging masses!

As I stated in an earlier post (while alpha-testing the software) this is a major software upgrade with a gazillion improvements. As with any massive change there will be some broken WordPress themes and plugins to fix… but the sunshine on the horizon is nearly blinding. I really can’t wait to dive in on this release and start developing websites. I think the huge upgrades to the design and operation of the administration interface is paramount to customer adoption and usability (every developer knows that user self-sustainability cannot be over-stated, period).

And if the new release wasn’t enough, the WordPress website itself just got a sweet redesign too! Very nice, Matt!

From Matt Mullenweg’s official announcement:

WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts and pages.

Here are some stats from Peter Westwood that he just posted about:

WordPress 2.5 has been released and includes a huge number of changes over the WordPress 2.3 series. Rather than list the changes in detail which would probably take me some days to write out I offer the following statistics and information about the WordPress 2.5 release:

  • In development for 185 days (6 months 3 days to be precise).
  • Changes to 364 files with 54008 insertions, and 29136 deletions for more detail you can view the diffstat output.
  • Patches committed from over 110 different contributors.
  • Over 1300 individual changes made for more detail you can view a complete changelog.
This entry was written by WarAxe, posted on March 29, 2008 at 12:56 pm, filed under Blogging and tagged , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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  1. PremiumWordpress
    Posted March 31, 2008 at 3:01 am | Permalink

    WordPress 2.5 looks great, but think I will hold off upgrading for a bit and let all the early adopters expose any bugs and vulnerabilities first.

  2. John3Sobieski
    Posted March 31, 2008 at 6:43 am | Permalink

    1) Feedback from tank vets is how they made the best tank in the world, the M1A1 Abrams Supertank

    2) this is going to end up being really SWEET!

  3. belZe
    Posted March 31, 2008 at 10:47 am | Permalink

    Hope to see an update for greenery theme if necessary :-)

  4. WarAxe
    Posted March 31, 2008 at 4:15 pm | Permalink

    @belZe :: I don’t think one will be necessary, but just for good measure I’m going to release an update to Greenery in a few days.

  5. belZe
    Posted April 2, 2008 at 3:16 pm | Permalink

    Hehe, just for the psychological effect. But nice to hear.
    @Topic: WP2.5 works like a charm, i like the new admin interface.

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