WordPress version 2.6 almost here

Written by Arian Xhezairi on Thursday, July 10, 2008 @ 3:35 AM and 7 views

A very short note about changes and naming, I was just wondering at least. The latest changes seem to be very promising, and sincerely we’re expecting something very much improved. Now below I’ll provide some useful links so you get a closer feeling of the new WordPress 2.6 Beta3 release.

However, there’s this naming convention which confuses me, probably I lack some necessary information, but why Beta tag has been used instead of RC that the major 2.5 was named after. On his blog posting about Beta3 of the version 2.6 Ryan Boren says:

We have one more week to go before the final release of 2.6.

Now, according to that there will be no Release Candidates hopefully, and oh, the release dates. Well, we all have a bad experience from the long process until 2.5 was released, will the same happen with 2.6 too? I strongly hope not.
It says due in 5 days, so I certainly expect no “due in 22 years” joke again. No serious influence will hit us with the upcoming 2.6 as long as there are a lot of other bloggers who still use 2.3, even 2.1 actually, but for multi-author blogs, well the Post Revisions feature is pretty much welcomed I suppose, plus much more. But anyways, everybody enjoys new features, they ease our work process, make us feel more comfortable.

WordPress 2.5 has been downloaded 1,917,488 times, let us show how much we were disappointed from 2.5 by exceeding this number with surprising downloads of 2.6, but don’t rush, we have to wait for the final.
Or no, maybe we should be polite and spare their servers bandwidth (that was meant to be a joke).

Eventually, I yet expect a response from Matt about my emails I’ve double sent him, as he made a promise about that through commenting here. But hey, popular people are very busy usually, that much so they even forget their promises of a human-to-human. Who am I after all to beg Matt for a response?

However, I’m excited to list a short version of new changes concerning 2.6 Beta3 release plus providing a direct link for downloading 2.6 for you who wish to give it a try before 14th of July is here. As I speak, I’ll be 22 in 20th so I want to update my blogs before I turn one year older.

Some among many changes since the last Beta.