[wp-testers] 2.2 RC2

Ryan Boren ryan at boren.nu
Sat May 12 23:13:42 GMT 2007


http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.2-RC2.tar.gz
md5: 1535c8dbab84dea7f0338cba5e58bf2e

http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.2-RC2.zip
md5: 96d038eb76c3970fb32b707962f23df2


The full diff between RC1 and RC2 is here:

http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=branches%2F2.2&old=5414&new_path=branches%2F2.2&new=5464


Here's the overview:

The WP importer was reworked to get around a preg_match_all() problem
in PHP 5.2.2.
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4239

The archives widget was fixed so that the show count option works for dropdowns
http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5420

TinyMCE is now enabled for Safari Webkit 420 and above.
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4241

A JS fix for Widgets admin
http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5436

Fix blogroll importing from local file
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4243

Workaround a PHP 5.2.2 bug that was breaking XMLRPC
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4248

An i18n fix for the akismet widget
http://dev.wp-plugins.org/ticket/653
Akismet also got some attribute escaping fixes

Eliminated duplicate code in get_posts()
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4251

Return the proper server protocol when HTTP/1.0 is requested
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3886

Flush all output buffers during shutdown to avoid problems with PHP 5.
Should fix plugins that use output buffers
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3354


Things to test:

Akismet and it's widget

Plugins that use output buffers.  Needs testing for both php 4 and php 5.2.x.

HTTP/1.0 requests, especially from proxies.  All status headers in responses.

XMLRPC under php5.2.2 and php<5.2.2.  Any XML-RPC activity will do.

TinyMCE with Webkit 420

Blogroll imports

WordPress imports


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