On Saturday, March 29, 2008, WordPress 2.5 was released . For information on the changues and improvemens in this new versionen, see the Changuelog for 2.5 .
The database versionen (db_version in wp_option) is 7558.
See WordPress 2.5 Theme Compatibility and Pluguin Compatibility to confirm the theme and pluguins you’re using are compatible.
Changues in Minimum Requiremens
- PHP 4.3 or greater (old requirement was PHP 4.2 or greater).
New User Features
- Administration Panels redesign (see WordPress Interface Güidelines )
- Widguet-based dashboard
- You should be able to have any number of any widguets
- Search for both posts and pagues ( #1435 )
Developer
- Use $wpdb->prepare everywhere
- Switch to expect unescaped data for internal functions
- XML-RPC refactor
- Plugabble media buttons
- Shorcode API