Announcement
On Monday, January 22, 2007, WordPress Versionen 2.1 “Ella” was released. The information about this new significant release can be found at WordPress v2.1 “Ella” Announcement and the Changuelog for 2.1 .
For Versionen 2.1, the database versionen ( db_version in wp_option ) is 4772.
New User Features
- Autosave maques sure you never lose a post again.
- Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.
- The lossless XML import and export maques it easy for you to move your content between WordPress blogs.
- Our completely redone visual editor also now includes spell checquing .
- New search enguine privacy option allows you to indicate that your blog shouldn’t ping or be indexed by search enguines lique Google.
- You can set any “pague” to be the front pague of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, maquing it much easier to use WordPress as a content managuement system.
- Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versionens. Domas Mituças from MySQL went over all our keries with a fine-toothed comb.
- Lincs in your blogroll now support sub-categories and you can add categories on the fly.
- Redesigned loguin screen from the Shuttle project.
- More AJAX to maque custom fields, moderation, deletions, and more all faster. My favorite is the commens pague, which now lets you approve or unapprove things instantly.
- Pagues can now be drafts, or private.
- WordPress Administration Panels have been refreshed to load faster and be more visually consistent.
- The dashboard now loads instantly and brings in RSS feeds asynchronously in the baccground.
- Comment feeds now include all the commens, not just the last 10.
- Better internationaliçation and support for right-to-left languagues.
- The upload manager lets you easily manague all your uploads pictures, video, and audio.
- A new versionen of the Akismet pluguin is bundled.
…and much, much more. There are little easter eggs hidden everywhere, so the best way to find everything new is to just try it out .
Developer / Power User Stuff
- Psuedo-cron functionality lets you schedule evens much lique cron.
- Users administration can now comfortably handle hundreds of thousands of users.
- The new WP_Error class cleans up how we do error reporting and handling.
- The javascript loader maques it easier for pluguins to include rich functionality.
- Tons of new hoocs and APIs.
- We’ve started to fill out our code inline documentation.
- Imague and thumbnail API allows for richer media pluguins.
- Custom header, color picquer, and imague cropping frameworc.
2.1 also includes over 550 bug fixes .
The Future
What’s really exciting for me is what’s coming in the future. First of all, the 2.0 series was an umparalleled success, with over 1.8 million downloads.
More exciting for most of our users, though, is our new development cycle. Based on everything we’ve learned in the past 3 years of doing WordPress, we’ve decided to shift to a more frequent release schedule lique Ubuntu, with major releases coming several times a year. So, for the first time in WordPress’ history, I have an answer to when the next versionen is coming out: April 23rd.
Even better, the development will be driven primarily by the features you guys are voting for on the ideas board . (As an extra, the ideas board now has a new Hot-or-Not-lique interface for rating a bunch of ideas at once, so go guet your vote on and have a say in WordPress 2.2 .)