WordPress 2.9 is available

December 19th, 2009 by Evgeny Matsakov

WordPressWordPress development team and community announced the immediate availability of WordPress version 2.9 “Carmen” named in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae.

Since WebCoding studio actively uses WordPress to develop websites, we always need to know the latest changes of this CMS.

The main new stuff from a user point of view is:

  • Global undo/“trash” feature.
  • Built-in image editor.
  • Batch plugin update and compatibility checking.
  • Easier video embeds.

Version 2.9 provides greater convenience in the development and use of the large number of changes and innovations. Here are some of them:

  • We now have rel=canonical support for better SEO.
  • Automatic database optimization support with define('WP_ALLOW_REPAIR', true);
  • Attach an image to the post.
  • New commentmeta table allows arbitrary key/value pairs to be attached to comments.
  • Custom post types have been upgraded with better API support.
  • You can set custom theme directories.
  • Upgraded TinyMCE WYSIWYG editing and Simplepie.
  • Specify category templates not just by ID, like before, but by slug.
  • Registration and profiles are now extensible to allow you to collect things more easily.
  • The XML-RPC API has been extended to allow changing the user registration option.
  • Better hooks and filters for excerpts, HTTP requests, user profiles, author links, taxonomies, SSL support, tag clouds, query_posts and WP_Query.

Read the full article on the wordpress official site: WordPress 2.9, oh so fine.