WordPress 2.9 Release Candidate 1

Version 2.9 of WordPress is complete and ready for the world at WordPress.org website. Since the status is in Release Candidate 1, this version still need to be tested to make sure everything is rolling like you expect it to. Second, and more importantly, they need everyone to test out their plugin compatibility.

Highlights

  • Requires MySQL 4.1.2 or greater (old requirement was 4.0).

New Features

User Features

  • Trash status for posts, pages, comments and attachments (includes restore and permanent delete)
  • Add support for ‘include‘ and ‘exclude‘ to Gallery Shortcode
  • Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client
  • more detil at version 2.9 Release Candidate

Development, Themes, Plugins

  • Added ‘excerpt_more‘ filter to wp_trim_excerpt() function, which allow developers to change excerpt ‘[...]‘
  • Add ‘smilies_src‘ filter so plugins can better add smilies
  • Canonical redirects for post name queries
  • more detil at version 2.9 Release Candidate

Features That Didn’t Make it into Version 2.9

These features didn’t make it into 2.9, but there’s hope that they might make it into 3.0.

Better support for custom post types

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