WordPress announced that version 2.6 – codenamed Tyner – is now available for download today!
What’s hot in 2.6?
- Taking auto-save to the next level and view who made what changes when to any post or page through a super-easy interface, much like Wikipedia or a version control system.
- Now see the differences between two versions posts.
- “Press This” allows you to extract the embed code for videos and pictures
- Google Gears speeds up blogging by caching or keeping a copy of commonly-used Javascript and CSS files on your computer. Just install Gears for Firefox or Internet Explorer (support for Safari and Opera pending). WordPress works just fine without it, you just get a little extra juice when you have it installed.
- Theme previewing allows you to test driving themes before making a switch over publicly
Some minor updates we also like:
- Image captions
- Bulk management of plugins
- A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG
- Customizable default avatars.
- Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click.”
- Toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.
- A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.
- Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI
- Version 2.6 fixes approximately 194 bugs and the upgrade from the 2.5 should be painless.
ContentRobot has been testing a beta for sometime and we’ll be offering it to our clients ASAP!