WordPress 2.5: get a “sneak peek” before launch

March 18, 2008 | By Andy Merrett | Filed Under Blog Software, News, WordPress

WordPress 2.5 is almost ready to go. Last week, we’d expected a St Patrick’s Day launch, but it looks as if we’ll have to wait just a few more days for the official launch.

That doesn’t mean you can’t get a sneak peek of the new version. Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of WordPress 2.5 is now available for download, with the team looking for feedback.

According to today’s blog entry, the software is “basically done and stable”, and:

could be released today, but we’d like to incorporate feedback from a wider audience before making it available to the general public. After a few days of your feedback we’ll set a final release date.

As always, there’ll be much more information in Lorelle’s excellent WordPress Wednesday columns.

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About the author: Andy Merrett has worked in a variety of commercial and not-for-profit organisations in both administrative and technical roles, including web and database development, systems analysis and programming. He is now a full-time professional blogger, writing on a variety of subjects including consumer technology, the Internet, music, and society. He currently works on a number of Shiny Media titles including Tech Digest, HDTVUK, and iPhonic, and other projects including Piano & Synth and Family Relationships. He is a prolific Facebook user. Andy lives in London, England.

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4 Responses to “WordPress 2.5: get a “sneak peek” before launch”

Ryan Williams on March 18th, 2008 3:50 am

To say it’s “nearly done” is a bit of an exaggeration on their part, seeing as the development tracker still reports the release as only 63% complete, which is a whopping few percent since your last post.

The tracker said it was due yesterday, but I see they’ve added another four days to it.

For those eagerly following the release, the most accurate measure you’ve got is that tracker. ;)
Andy Merrett on March 18th, 2008 4:33 am

Maybe it’s like the progress bars you get when installing software. Sometimes the bar “sticks” for ages, then the last portion is done in no time.

Or perhaps not…
Lloyd Budd on March 18th, 2008 9:47 am

Ryan, although some projects may operate like that, the tracker isn’t historically a meaningful measure in that way for WordPress. If you wanted to consider open bugs, I would only look at the high severity and priority ones. Which appears to be less than 20.
athritis on March 22nd, 2008 8:12 pm

yeah 2.5 is good but the script is only going to get better…there the best blog script out there i reckon…

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