wp-security I’m indeed feeling a little bit angry. Why do I always have to be the last one to be aware of new things about WordPress. Although I haven’t posted in a while now, keeping track of WordPress events is something that can’t keep me silent.

Ryan Boren just posted about the latest made changes, and believe me the list is quite impressive. He states that 2.6 isn’t a big release as 2.5 was, but I honestly think that this is it, this is how WordPress should be actually. Probably this should have been the “big” 2.5 release. But anyway, here’s the list of new stuff one can experience if one gets 2.6 installed.

  • Post Revisioning
  • A “Press This” bookmarklet for tumblelog style quick posting
  • Caching of static files with Gears for faster Admin page loads
  • A new and improved image editing dialog that offers lots of control over the images in your posts
  • Theme previewing as seen on WordPress.com
  • Built-in word counting in the post editor
  • The ability to disable remote publishing for the security conscious
  • XML-RPC API for changing blog options
  • Better SSL support for the Admin
  • Hierarchy-aware paging in the Manage Pages and Manage Categories admin pages.
  • The ability to relocate your content directory
  • The ability to move wp-config.php out of your web root
  • Drag-and-drop sortable galleries
  • Customizable default avatars
  • Bulk delete, activate, and deactivate for plugins
  • Check box range selection with shift-click
  • TinyMCE 3.1.0.1 with lots of bug fixes
  • jQuery 1.2.6 with some nice performance improvements
  • jQuery UI 1.5
  • Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements

I’m preparing to go out for a tennis match with my cousin, but surely as soon as I return, a brand new WP 2.6 review is expected to show up here. In mean time, if your curiosity pushes you to get hands dirty on 2.6 earlier click and grab it here right away. Laterz.

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