Version 2.9
On xxx xxth, 2009, WordPress Version 2.9, named for xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, will be released to the public. For more information on this enhancement and bug-fix release, read the Development Blog and see the Changelog for 2.9.
For Version 2.9, the database version (db_version in wp_options) changed to xxxx, and the Trac revision was xxxxx
Highlights
- Requires MySQL 4.1.2 or greater (old requirement was 4.0).
New Features
User Features
- Trash status for posts, pages, comments and attachments (includes restore and permanent delete)
- Add support for 'include' and 'exclude' to [gallery] (Gallery Shortcode)
- Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client
- Add support for sticky posts to the WXR exporter and importer
- rel=canonical for singular pages
- Scroll back to the same location after saving a file in the Plugin and Theme editors
- Correct comments and remove unecessary echos from the default themes sidebar templete file
- Enable the APP (Atom) attachment file download to work correctly
- Support location of category templates based on 'category-slug' as well as 'category-id' (Ticket 10614)
- Support location of tag templates based on 'tag-id' as well as 'tag-slug' (Ticket 10868)
- Support location of page templates based on 'page-slug' and 'page-id'
- Set "Allow my blog to appear in search engines" to checked in installation
- Don't offer to make a category its own parent
- Remove Sphere from search list
- Minify admin CSS
- Show correct max upload filesize error message
- Add rel attribute to next/previous post links
- Make the default and classic themes comment textareas valid XHTML
- Clean up .button and .button[disabled] CSS classes, add spinner and gray-out buttons after clicking Publish or Update post
- Fix race condition with autosave when clicking Publish immediately after entering post title
- Add Comments for Pages in the WordPress Default theme
- Define $content_width for Kubrick
- Better feedback on publishing of future posts and pages
- Display comments in descending date order, consistently
- Add means of automatically repairing tables
- Fix Press This bookmarklet for Safari 4
- Give plugins and themes simple control over the text displayed at the end of an autogenerated Excerpt
- Don't show "Change Permalinks" button when editing the page set as "Front page"
- Image editing
- Retire BunnyTags importer
- Retire Jerome's keywords importer
- Explain that the permalink is temporary for autosave generated permalinks
- Update SimplePie to 1.2
- Press This fixes
- Eliminate the redundant and confusing comment threading depth of 1
Development, Themes, Plugins
- Added 'excerpt_more' filter to wp_trim_excerpt() function, which allow developers to change excerpt '[...]' more string (Ticket 10395)
- Add 'smilies_src' filter so plugins can better add smilies
- Canonical redirects for post name queries
- Allow _wp_get_comment_list to handle custom comment types
- Return an empty array instead of false for get_children() when no children found
- Add some filters so that HTTP requests can be filtered
- Move plugin update notice output to the plugin specific hook
- Limit wp-mail 'blog by email' checks to every 5 minutes
- Make it much easier to filter contact methods from user profiles
- Allow filtering of get_edit_post_link for custom post_type
- 'get_sample_permalink_html' filter
- Enforce activation key to be a string, reject activation keys that are arrays
- Respect custom post_type in queries
- Send Retry-After header when in maintenance mode
- Various WP Filesystem related fixes and documentation
- Add constants for ftp connections timeouts
- Increase timeout on cron-based requests when checking for upgrades
- Don't use has_action() before do_action() in http.php
- Speed up jQuery based scripts
- Use the current user as author for autosave
- Show My Posts as default view on the Edit Posts screen for users without 'edit_others_posts' cap
- Ensure that drafts viewed over XMLRPC have a correct gmt date set
- Pass user id to 'get_' the_author_meta filters
- Move _wp_get_user_contactmethods() into the registrations functions file
- Machine parseable db error codes
- Add global JS vars and actions to the media uploader iframe
- Add JSON compat for PHP < 5.2
- Make option_name the primary key for the options table
- Allow a plugin to do a complete takeover of Post by Email
- Logarithmic scale for tag cloud
- Pass Post ID to the 'get_comments_number' filter
- Always filter the url in the media upload form
- Add a 'the_terms' filter
- is_blog_installed() improvements
- Allow force_ssl_admin() to properly accept false as a value
- Pass logged_in cookie to async-upload and filter the cookie scheme in auth_redirect()
- Add more actions around database add/delete/update operations
- phpDoc for wp_"check|set"_post_lock functions
- Use the old strings which are more translator friendly and add a generic default string to aid re-use by plugins adding post_types
- Filter fields through kses upon display and introduce sanitize_user_object() and sanitize_user_field()
- Use null instead of 0 when setting content length
- Include 'hidden' directories in filesystem dirlist by default
- Pass args array to 'wp_list_pages' filter
- Actions for taxonomy updates
- Key should be comment_id not post_id in comments table
- Add get_delete_post_link to retrieve delete posts link for post
- Add 'separator' parameter to wp_tag_cloud() and wp_generate_tag_cloud() functions (Ticket 10315)
- Added add_comment_meta() family of functions
Advanced Features
Features That Didn't Make it into Version 2.9
These features didn't make it into 2.9, but there's hope that they might make it into 3.0.