Baker is Out!

Post by: bingorabbit
Published on June 11th, 2009
Filed under: WordPress,information.technology
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Automattic has “just” announced that WordPress 2.8, aka Baker is out! 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker. Here’s a quick video overview of everything in the new release:

Over 180 features, changes, improvements and upgrades came out with this version, the one I’m excited about is:

If you make edits or tweaks to themes or plugins from your dashboard, you’ll appreciate the new CodePress editor which gives syntax highlighting to the previously-plain editor. Also there is now contextual documentation for the functions in the file you’re editing linked right below the editor.

which I was purposing in GSoC 2009. More features can be found in here and you can download the system from this page.

As usual, I will be testing and exploring the new system and will soon get you with my feedback.

..or you may would like to check other posts that can be useful..

  1. My WordPress-GSoC Idea
  2. WordPress 2.9, Carmen
  3. Bespin
  4. Coltrane
  5. Sulphur

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