Ryan Boren, the lead developer of WordPress team announced that WordPress 2.6 beta 1 is out. 2.6 is not a big release as 2.5, says Ryan on his announcement. There are few security improvements in the new release such as ability to move wp-config.php out of web root, better SSL support for admin area, to have an option to disable remote publishing…
WordPress 2.6 comes is going to come with following features.
- 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
Ryan says, that 2.6 is not going to be a big release but it seems that it has all the features that would have made 2.5 perfect.
According to calendar, 2.6 is expected in August, but since everything is going very smooth with the development of 2.6, you might expect an early release in the mid of July. Awesome, isn’t it?
