[wp-testers] 2.9-beta-1 is available

[Gene Steinberg]

Is there no 2.9 plugin compatibility page yet?

Peace,
Gene


On Nov 16, 2009, at 11:24 PM, Mark Jaquith wrote:

> http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.9-beta-1.zip
> 
> Big features to test:
> 
> • Basic image editing (rotate, flip, resize, crop)
> • Post/Page image thumbnails. Enable the admin UI by declaring support
> in your theme: add_theme_support('post-thumbnails');
> • Trash, with undo functionality, for posts, pages, comments
> • Comment Meta table and functions — like Custom Fields/postmeta but
> for comments
> • Easy media embeds, oEmbed — paste a URL on its own item and have it
> turn into embed code
> • register_theme_directory() which enables plugins to bundle their own
> themes, without copying (BuddyPress, primary example)
> • Combo upgrader — get notified of plugin updates in the WP core
> upgrader, as well as being informed of crowd-sourced compatibility
> information for the plugins.
> 
> It's bug-fixing and polishing time! Our priorities should be, in this order:
> 
> 1. Fixing regressions in old features/behaviors
> 2. Squashing bugs in the new features
> 3. Polish
> 
> Big thanks to everyone who has contributed so far. Special thanks to
> Viper007Bond for the media embed features. It makes something that
> used to be really hard into the simplest thing in the world: paste in
> the URL where you saw the media item. Boom. Remember, our job is to
> make complicated things so simple that people don't have to think
> about them. I would phrase "embed code" to disappear from our
> vocabulary.
> 
> Let's all put our heads down, test the heck out of this thing, and
> hopefully launch it in early December!
> 
> -- 
> Mark Jaquith
> • http://markjaquith.com/
> • http://coveredwebservices.com/
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