{"id":1075,"date":"2009-12-19T00:46:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T00:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2021-06-04T11:59:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T11:59:16","slug":"wordpress-2-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2009\/12\/wordpress-2-9\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 2.9, oh so fine"},"content":{"rendered":"
I want to make you mine, all the time… oh wait. Hello. I’m here on behalf of the entire WordPress development team and community to announce the immediate availability of WordPress version 2.9 “Carmen”<\/a> named in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae<\/a> (whom we’ve added to our Last.fm WP release station<\/a>). You can upgrade easily from your Dashboard by going to Tools<\/strong> > Upgrade<\/strong>, or you can download from WordPress.org<\/a>. And of course, it wouldn’t be a major release without a short video summarizing some of the cool things about the new version:<\/p>\n The coolest new stuff from a user point of view is:<\/p>\n 2.9 provides the smoothest ride yet because of a number of improvements under the hood and more subtle improvements you’ll begin to appreciate once you’ve been around the block a few times. Here’s just a sampling:<\/p>\n All of this and more is reflected in the over 500 tickets, bugs, and enhancements that WP developers in this release cycle<\/a>.<\/p>\n This release included code from over 140 contributors, here’s everyone we were able to identify: aaroncampbell (Aaron Campbell)<\/a>, abackstrom (Adam Backstrom)<\/a>, aldenta (John Ford)<\/a>, alexkingorg (Alex King)<\/a>, [amilanov], antonylesuisse (Antony Lesuisse)<\/a>, apeatling (Andy Peatling)<\/a>, apokalyptik (Demitrious Kelly)<\/a>, arena (Andr\u00e9 Renaut)<\/a>, batmoo (Mohammad Jangda)<\/a>, Ben Dunkle<\/a>, BenBE1987<\/a>, Benjamin Flesch<\/a>, bookchiq (Sarah Lewis)<\/a>, brianwhite<\/a>, c0nstruct<\/a>, caesarsgrunt (Caesar Schinas)<\/a>, CalebKniffen (Caleb Kniffen)<\/a>, chrisbliss18<\/a>, chrisscott (Chris Scott)<\/a>, christoph179<\/a>, coffee2code (Scott Reilly)<\/a>, [cross country flight], Curioso<\/a>, davecpage (Dave Page)<\/a>, dcole07 (Dan Cole)<\/a>, dd32 (Dion Hulse)<\/a>, demetris (\u0394\u03b7\u03bc\u03ae\u03c4\u03c1\u03b7\u03c2 \u039a\u03af\u03ba\u03b9\u03b6\u03b1\u03c2)<\/a>, Denis-de-Bernardy<\/a>, dj-wp<\/a>, dwright<\/a>, eddieringle (Eddie Ringle)<\/a>, error (Michael Hampton)<\/a>, ewestp<\/a>, fabifott<\/a>, filosofo (Austin Matzko)<\/a>, greenshady (Justin Tadlock)<\/a>, gsnedders\/link92 (Geoffrey Sneddon)<\/a>, hailin (Hailin Wu)<\/a>, hakre<\/a>, hanilovesme<\/a>, Harald Nesland<\/a>, harrym<\/a>, holizz (Tom Adams)<\/a>, ikonst<\/a>, jacobsantos (Jacob Santos)<\/a>, janeforshort (Jane Wells)<\/a>, jamescollins (James Collins)<\/a>, jdub (Jeff Waugh)<\/a>, jeff_ (Jean-Fran\u00e7ois \u201cJeff\u201d VIAL)<\/a>, jeremyclarke (Jeremy Clarke)<\/a>, JeremyVisser (Jeremy Visser)<\/a>, jikamens<\/a>, jmulley<\/a>, Joern_W<\/a>, johanee (Johan Eenfeldt)<\/a>, johnbillion (John Blackbourn)<\/a>, johnjamesjacoby (John James Jacoby)<\/a>, johnjosephbachir (John Joseph Bachir)<\/a>, JonathanRogers<\/a>, joostdevalk (Joost de Valk)<\/a>, Jose Carlos Norte<\/a>, josephscott (Joseph Scott)<\/a>, junsuijin<\/a>, kevinB (Kevin Behrens)<\/a>, kometbomb<\/a>, lilyfan (IKEDA Yuriko)<\/a>, lloydbudd (Lloyd Budd)<\/a>, [lostinlafayette], madhyde<\/a>, MattyRob<\/a>, mdawaffe (Michael Adams)<\/a>, Mittineague<\/a>, miqrogroove<\/a>, morfiusx<\/a>, mrmist (David McFarlane)<\/a>, mtdewvirus (Nick Momrik)<\/a>, mysz<\/a>, nacin (Andrew Nacin)<\/a>, nanochrome<\/a>, nao (Naoko McCracken)<\/a>, nathanrice (Nathan Rice)<\/a>, nbachiyski (\u041d\u0438\u043a\u043e\u043b\u0430\u0439 \u0411\u0430\u0447\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u0438)<\/a>, niallkennedy (Niall Kennedy)<\/a>, nickohrn (Nick Ohrn)<\/a>, ninjaWR (Ryan Murphy)<\/a>, noel (No\u00ebl Jackson)<\/a>, Otto42 (Samuel Wood)<\/a>, pairg<\/a>, peaceablewhale (Franklin Tse)<\/a>, prettyboymp (Michael Pretty)<\/a>, ProDevStudio<\/a>, ramiy<\/a>, redsweater (Daniel Jalkut)<\/a>, ruslany<\/a>, sambauers (Sam Bauers)<\/a>, scribu<\/a>, Sewar<\/a>, Simek<\/a>, simonwheatley (Simon Wheatley)<\/a>, sirzooro (Daniel Fru\u017cy\u0144ski)<\/a>, sivel (Matt Martz)<\/a>, skeltoac (Andy Skelton)<\/a>, snakefoot<\/a>, stephanreiter (Stephan Reiter)<\/a>, strider72 (Stephen Rider)<\/a>, taco1991<\/a>, takayukister (Takayuki Miyoshi)<\/a>, tellyworth<\/a>, tenpura<\/a>, usermrpapa<\/a>, utkarsh<\/a>, Viper007Bond<\/a>, vladimir_kolesnikov (Vladimir Kolesnikov)<\/a>, VoxPelli (Pelle Wessman)<\/a>, [voyou1], wahgnube<\/a>, waltervos<\/a>, westonruter (Weston Ruter)<\/a>, wnorris (Will Norris)<\/a>, x 2.9 has been an exciting development cycle, and I must say it has whetted our appetite for 3.0, which is coming next (probably this spring) and will include at the very least the merge of MU with the WordPress core, and a new default theme. We can’t wait to start working on it. But first, some Carmen McRae tunes and a beer. Join us! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n (After<\/em> you upgrade, of course!)<\/p>\n I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I want to make you mine, all the time… oh wait. Hello. I’m here on behalf of the entire WordPress development team and community to announce the immediate availability of WordPress version 2.9 “Carmen” named in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae (whom we’ve added to our Last.fm WP release station). 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rel=canonical<\/code> support for better SEO.<\/li>\n
wp-config.php<\/code> file by adding
define('WP_ALLOW_REPAIR', true);<\/code>.<\/li>\n
commentmeta<\/code> table that allows arbitrary key\/value pairs to be attached to comments, just like posts, so you can now expand greatly what you can do in the comment framework.<\/li>\n
\nenlab (Eric Marden)<\/a>, yoavf (Yoav Farhi)<\/a>. Wowza!<\/p>\n