WordPress 1.5.1 has been released today and here are some of the changes.

» Login and feed fixes for IIS
» Faster gettext i18n
» Improved i18n string coverage
» Extended ping support
» Paging on the Manage->Posts page
» URI-safe accent stripping for all UTF-8 characters in the Latin Extended-A Unicode block
» Query string style argument list support for wp_get_links() and wp_get_linksbyname()
» Improved hierarchy listing in wp_list_pages()
» Support for a Status: theme header field that allows themes to be marked as private, publish, or draft
» Improved caching and database query reduction
» Active plugin and theme highlighting
» Plugins can now have multiple option pages
» Pingbacks now work on hosts with fopen off like Dreamhost
» Many bug fixes

I don’t think I will upgrade anytime soon because it took me quite sometime to hack some of the core files to make it fit into my site. Of course, unless there are some secruity loopholes in 1.5 then I will upgrade immediately

WordPress 1.5 had been released a few days back, it is quite a major release comparing it with 1.0->1.2. This site runs on WordPress 1.2 and I will definately upgrade it to 1.5 if I have the time to hack all my plugins to 1.5 compatible and the problem is that there are quite alot of them.

Spend a few hours yesterday upgrading this site on my localhost to WordPress 1.2. Customised all the hacks I did for my WordPress to make it compatible with WordPress 1.2. It is kinda easy, the API didn’t change much. I love the new plugin architecture. Just drop it in the plugin directory, activate it and you can use the function. It is much neater than my-hacks.php.

Once I am satisfied with the site on my localhost, I just upload it to the live server and it is done. I always like to do stuffs on my localhost first.

If there is any bugs, please post in the comments of this post. Thanks alot.

By the way, I have updated the poll with a new topic, entitled “Preferred IM?”. Vote it away on the right.