WordPress 2.3 is available
September 24, 2007
Well, we knew it was coming. Funny though, I thought it would be released in the morning, rather than in the evening. So get your databases backed up, and check your plug in compatibility, because WordPress 2.3 is here!
In the announcement, some of the features listed are:
- Native Tagging support
- Update Notification - This will tell you when a new version is available, and when one of your plug-ins have a update available.
- Canonical URLs - This sounds like it is really going to be great, re-directs broken or truncated URLs to the correct URL anyway. I’m curious to see this one in action.
- Pending Review feature - so multi-blog authors can put something up for review by an editor, rather than saving it as a draft.
- Better WYSIWYG functionality - I’ll have to see this one for myself. I’ve never liked the way the GUI editor works.
There are even more features that I didn’t mention. Read the announcement for yourself.
I’m not going to jump on board and upgrade tonight, but hopefully it will be this week.
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September 25th, 2007 at 9:41 am
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September 26th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Mike, Did you catch wind of the latest info. In 2.3 Their grabbing user data from the installs. Check out: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/25/1632246
I’d be curious to know what you think.
September 26th, 2007 at 10:02 am
Thanks Phil.
They just updated that on slashdot though, and said that the original post was just plain wrong.
Wordpress stated that the update feature was going to send info to their API.
From the announcement:
“It works by sending your blog URL, plugins, and version information to our new api.wordpress.org service which then compares it to the plugin database and tells you whats the latest and greatest you can use”
September 26th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Still they are collecting data from the blog. I suppose it’s relatively benign but wondering if it’s a collection of data that malcontents could utilize if they get ahold of the data.
September 26th, 2007 at 11:02 am
Well, it’s always helpful to know what application and version you are attacking, so anyone that is capturing that traffic could potentially get some use out of it.
You can install a plugin to disable the feature, read about that here.
Still you would think that you could just de-select a checkbox if you didn’t like it.