Tag: release

After 1 beta and 2 RCs, WordPress 3.8 has been released!

• Admin UI Improvements – New Design, Responsive, Color Schemes
• Refined theme management
• New Twenty Fourteen theme, a sleek new magazine theme

Download: WordPress 3.8

WordPress 3.7.1 has been released and it is a maintenance release. Are you using the new background autoupdate feature yet?

This .1 release fixes 12 bugs including:

• Images with captions no longer appear broken in the visual editor.
• Allow some sites running on old or poorly configured servers to continue to check for updates from WordPress.org.
• Avoid fatal errors with certain plugins that were incorrectly calling some WordPress functions too early.
• Fix hierarchical sorting in get_pages(), exclusions in wp_list_categories(), and in_category() when called with empty values.
• Fix a warning that may occur in certain setups while performing a search, and a few other notices.

For me, my WordPress installation is a git checkout, so the background autoupdate is not applicable for me. I normally just do:

git fetch –tags; git checkout 3.7.1

After 2 betas and another 2 RCs, WordPress 3.7 is finally out!

This release features some of the most important architectural updates we’ve made to date. Here are the big ones:

• Updates while you sleep: With WordPress 3.7, you don’t have to lift a finger to apply maintenance and security updates. Most sites are now able to automatically apply these updates in the background. The update process also has been made even more reliable and secure, with dozens of new checks and safeguards.
• Stronger password recommendations: Your password is your site’s first line of defense. It’s best to create passwords that are complex, long, and unique. To that end, our password meter has been updated in WordPress 3.7 to recognize common mistakes that can weaken your password: dates, names, keyboard patterns (123456789), and even pop culture references.
• Better global support: Localized versions of WordPress will receive faster and more complete translations. WordPress 3.7 adds support for automatically installing the right language files and keeping them up to date, a boon for the many millions who use WordPress in a language other than English.

For developers there are lots of options around how to control the new updates feature, including allowing it to handle major upgrades as well as minor ones, more sophisticated date query support, and multisite improvements. As always, if you’re hungry for more dive into the Codex or browse the over 400 closed tickets on Trac.

This release was led by Andrew Nacin, backed up by Dion Hulse and Jon Cave. This is our first release using the new plugin-first development process, with a much shorter timeframe than in the past. (3.6 was released in August.) The 3.8 release, due in December, will continue this plugin-led development cycle that gives much more autonomy to plugin leads and allows us to decouple feature development from a release.

Download: WordPress 3.7

WordPress 3.6.1 has been release. This is a maintenance and security release, so please upgrade as soon as you get the chance.

This .1 release fixes 13 bugs and the below security issues:

• Block unsafe PHP unserialization that could occur in limited situations and setups, which can lead to remote code execution. Reported by Tom Van Goethem.
• Prevent a user with an Author role, using a specially crafted request, from being able to create a post “written by” another user. Reported by Anakorn Kyavatanakij.
• Fix insufficient input validation that could result in redirecting or leading a user to another website. Reported by Dave Cummo, a Northrup Grumman subcontractor for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Additionally, we’ve adjusted security restrictions around file uploads to mitigate the potential for cross-site scripting.

Download: WordPress 3.6.1

WordPress 3.6 has been released!

User Features

• The new Twenty Thirteen theme inspired by modern art puts focus on your content with a colorful, single-column design made for media-rich blogging.
• Revamped Revisions save every change and the new interface allows you to scroll easily through changes to see line-by-line who changed what and when.
• Post Locking and Augmented Autosave will especially be a boon to sites where more than a single author is working on a post. Each author now has their own autosave stream, which stores things locally as well as on the server (so much harder to lose something) and there’s an interface for taking over editing of a post, as demonstrated beautifully by our bearded buddies in the video above.
• Built-in HTML5 media player for native audio and video embeds with no reliance on external services.
• The Menu Editor is now much easier to understand and use.

Developer features

• A new audio/video API gives you access to metadata like ID3 tags.
• You can now choose HTML5 markup for things like comment and search forms, and comment lists.
• Better filters for how revisions work, so you can store a different amount of history for different post types.
• Tons more listed on the Codex, and of course you can always browse the over 700 closed tickets.