Firstly, apologies for the delays in getting out the first few WordPress 2.6 digest posts. They are coming real soon, once I get the time to write up all the good work that has been going on.

Secondly, some good folks are in the process of organising the first WordCamp in the UK.  So far it looks like it is going to be on the weekend of the 19th-20th of July and they are looking for a show of hands so they can work out what size venue to organise.

I hope to be able to see you there!

WordPress 2.5 has been released and includes a huge number of changes over the WordPress 2.3 series. Rather than list the changes in detail which would probably take me some days to write out I offer the following statistics and information about the WordPress 2.5 release:

• In development for 185 days (6 months 3 days to be precise).
• Changes to 364 files with 54008 insertions, and 29136 deletions for more detail you can view the diffstat output.
• Patches committed from over 110 different contributors.
• Over 1300 individual changes made for more detail you can view a complete changelog.

If you want to read the more detailed blow-by-blow changes for WordPress 2.5 then I suggest you dig back through the archives on this site and read all the weekly digest posts covering WordPress 2.5.

These links should help you find them: posts tagged wordpress-2.4 and posts tagged wordpress-2.5.

It was a busy week again for WordPress 2.5, this list look short as we have been doing the final polishing on today’s WordPress 2.5 release, the changes were:

• A fix to ensure that we preserve HTML entities in Custom Fields (#6374).
• Pretty permalinks for taxonomies (#6357).
• Changes to the login page redirect code to ensure that we honour redirect_to for logged in users (#6385).
• A new filter to allow a plugin to force enable/disable the flash uploader (#6406).
• Switch to using is_numeric() instead of ctype_digit() (#5481).
• A change to the trackback handling code to drop trackbacks that request UTF-7 ([7559]).
• Some updates to the new admin style.

For even more information on some of the other little changes that went in this week you can read the whole weekly trac timeline.

Now go an update to WordPress 2.5 - you know you want to!

It was a busy week again for WordPress 2.5, this list may look short but a lot of work was done on polishing the new admin UI, the changes were:

• Addition of avatar support to the default and classic themes ([7360], [7361]).
• Lots of title attributes to improve the accessibility of the Manage pages (#6082).
• Addition sanitization of option values to add_option (#5209).
• Addition of more tab indexes to the Post and Page creation screens to make them easier to navigate (#6352).
• More work on the plugin updater (#5586).
• More updates to the new media library (#5911).
• Lots of updates to the new admin style.

For even more information on some of the other little changes that went in this week you can read the whole weekly trac timeline.

It was a busy week again for WordPress 2.5, the changes were:

• Addition of sanitization to get_link() and get_link_to_edit() (#6125).
• phpDoc with copyright and licensing info to external ftp libs (#6155).
• Improved self links for feeds (#5238).
• Introduction of a per-user admin colour scheme selector (#6167).
• Changes to move the restrict_manage_posts hook back inside the form (#6196).
• A new filter to allow plugins to filter the fetched pingback source data (#3525).
• Improvements to the export file to enclose more data in CDATA sections so as to produce more valid xml. (#4242).
• Changes to wp_nonce_field(), wp_referrer_field() and wp_original_referer_field() so they can return the output rather than echoing (#3628).
• Switch from addLoadEvent to jQuery(document).ready for kicking off javascript code (#6241).
• Enhancements to the MT importer to import keywords as tags (#4472).
• Update to TinyMCE 3.05 (#6195).
• More work on the plugin updater (#5586).
• More updates to the new media library (#5911).
• Lots of updates to the new admin style.

For more information of the per-user admin stylesheet selector and examples of how to add your own themes you can read Ozh’s excellent post Per User Custom Stylesheet in WordPress 2.5″

For even more information on some of the other little changes that went in this week you can read the whole weekly trac timeline.

This weeks digest post is only for 6 days as I seemed to have got my dates wrong on Friday when writing the last one and ended it on a Monday instead of a Sunday! It was a busy week again for WordPress 2.5, even though the list below looks short, the changes were:

• Abstraction of the colours from the layout within the css files to allow for multiple admin themes ([7178]).
• Improvements to add_menu_page() so as to create the correct links for top level menus in more cases (#4907).
• Lots of work on the plugin update installer (#5586).
• Update to TinyMCE 3.03 (#6084).
• More updates to the new media library (#5911).
• Lots of updates to the new admin style.

For even more information on some of the other little changes that went in this week you can read the whole weekly trac timeline, look at a complete changelog for trunk or view a diffstat of the changes.

Firstly, apologies again for this digest post being a bit late - the final push for 2.5 has been in full swing and I took a week out to go on holiday. It was a busy week again for WordPress 2.5, the changes were:

• Changes to do_feed() to ensure that an error page is generated when a non-existent feed format is requested (#5446).
• Introduction of a new image_resize() function (#6005).
• Introduction of get_temp_dir() to allow for the different locations temporary files may be stored (#5984).
• An update to the in_category() function to support category names that are all numbers and add documentation ([7064]).
• Change to generating random passwords for users created during import (#5837).
• A fix to the WXR importer to ensure that tags are imported correctly by name rather than as numbers (#5330).
• A fix to ensure that the current_page_item class is set correctly when listing pages (#2959).
• Introduction of get_post_ancestors() and the addition of the current_page_ancestor class to ancestors of the current page when listing pages (#5662).
• Fixes to the plugin update code to use string comparison to detect version differences (#5978).
• Introduction of post editing collision detection (#6043).
• Changes to switch preg_replace() calls with the e modifier to preg_replace_callback() to improve security ([7056], #5644).
• Update to TinyMCE 3.02 (#6012).
• More updates to the new media library (#5911).
• Lots of updates to the new admin style.

For even more information on some of the other little changes that went in this week you can read the whole weekly trac timeline, look at a complete changelog for trunk or view a diffstat of the changes.

Just a quick post to let you know that I’ve not disappeared or anything and the digest posts for the last couple of weeks will be ready soon.

We have been very busy trying to get WordPress 2.5 ready and as you may have heard we have had to slip the release by a week and we are currently aiming for a release next week. Hopefully we will be happy enough with the stability of the new features soon and a beta or release candidate version will be announce on the development blog.

Over and out.