WordPress 3.1 RC2 – Lester Chan's WordPress Plugins

WordPress 3.1 RC2 has been released! I am pretty sure by end of this week or latest next week, we will be able to see WordPress 3.1 out the door!

The second release candidate for WordPress 3.1 is now available. The requisite haiku:

Rounding up stragglers

Last few bugs for 3.1

Go test RC2

As I outlined in the announcement post for RC1, release candidates are the last stop before the final release. It means we think we’re done, and we again have no bugs to squash. But with tens of millions of users, many server configurations and setups, and thousands of plugins and themes, it’s still possible we’ve missed something.

Beta 1 came on Thanksgiving, RC1 on Christmas, and RC2 on New Year’s Day. We won’t be waiting for another holiday for the final release, though, so if you haven’t tested WordPress 3.1 yet, now is the time!

Select changes since RC1:

The security fixes included in WordPress 3.0.4

Fix issues related to handling a static front page

Fixes and enhancements for the pagination buttons

Fix searching for partial usernames

Properly reactivate plugins after editing them

Always show the current author in the author dropdown when editing a post

Fixes for attachment taxonomies

Fix node removal for the admin bar

Fix the custom post type show_in_menu argument

Various fixes for right-to-left languages

and a few dozen more changes

If you are testing the release candidate and think you’ve found a bug, there are a few ways to let us know:

Post it to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums

Report it to the wp-testers mailing list

Join the development IRC channel and tell us live at irc.freenode.net #wordpress-dev

File a bug ticket on the WordPress Trac

Download: WordPress 3.1 RC2