The features we slated for 2.6 have been in the repository for awhile now, so we’re going to start our beta cycle in preparation for a mid-July release. Get Beta 1 here. 2.6 isn’t a big release like 2.5 was, but it has a few new features for you.
- Post Revisioning
- A “Press This” bookmarklet for tumblelog style quick posting
- Caching of static files with Gears for faster Admin page loads
- A new and improved image editing dialog that offers lots of control over the images in your posts
- Theme previewing as seen on WordPress.com
- Built-in word counting in the post editor
- The ability to disable remote publishing for the security conscious
- XML-RPC API for changing blog options
- Better SSL support for the Admin
- Hierarchy-aware paging in the Manage Pages and Manage Categories admin pages.
- The ability to relocate your content directory
- The ability to move wp-config.php out of your web root
- Drag-and-drop sortable galleries
- Customizable default avatars
- Bulk delete, activate, and deactivate for plugins
- Check box range selection with shift-click
- TinyMCE 3.1.0.1 with lots of bug fixes
- jQuery 1.2.6 with some nice performance improvements
- jQuery UI 1.5
- Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements
Enjoy, and thanks for testing.
Looking forward to the final release of this.. Sounds great.
@Mike,
I agree, looks like 2.6 will be an even better and improved 2.5!
I’m excited about post revisioning and the admin SSL support, that will be nice to have finally.
I am still recovering from the big 2.5 move, but looking forward to what 2.6 can offer.
Mahalo for all the hard work.
Holy Cow! 2.6 might not be as big a release, but it seems to have all the missing bits that would have made 2.5 perfect (as opposed to simply awesome).
the media/gallery management improvements alone will completely rejuvenate and facilitate Mr Avg Joe (my customers) to take control. I mean without various buggy 3rd party plug-ins and extra software update overhead.
I’m jiggling with anticipaction
How about using http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/ for hosting some of the WordPress js libs ?
Sounds nice! I’ve just upgraded to WP 2.5.1 not long ago and this beta version is already out. I’m looking forward to the official release instead; as I am quite worried of any breakage in the plugins and stuffs. Hence, I’ll wait for a while.
I do my best and replace it.
Is that the final list? Any usability improvement?
Sounds great! How about the image upload problems that a lot of people seem to have, will address them also?
Yeah, this sounds great. Waiting for the final release.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email
“Any images and attachments in your email will be posted inline. Note that image attachments are broken in WordPress 2.5. A fix is expected in 2.6.”
Is this the case?
I’m not to sure where to post bugs i’ve come across so I’ll just post this here:
Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, ‘version_warning’ was given in /home/content/f/a/m/famousbeats/html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 311
If there is a better place to post this please let me know.
When this final version released?
You know what would be great? Tagging old post with out scewing up the categories 🙂
For example: I want to be able to tag all posts that have the x word in them with a specific tag.
These are some nice features that were needed by usual people. Now they are going to be public, seems as if wordpress is going to present some surprise in near future..:)
Nice… and I hope all plugins that I’ve already used will compatible 😉
WOW, so many cool features! Can’t wait for the final version.
Boy, things must be really moving along nicely if you guys are going to get 2.6 out at about a month ahead of time. Will have to see what happens but the feature set right now looks pretty darn cool.
bari bir kaç ay geçseydi ya 😀 bu kadar hızlı version değiştirmek adamın başını döndürüyor.
İt’s very nice news thanks for all…
Great, looks like lots of improvements.
Really good upgrade…. Can’t wait for the real one…
Since I have yet to be able to fix my broken “insert into post” media organizer and the broken “paste from word” dialogue — and have not been able to find any WP document that officially addresses how to fix these issues — I’m hoping 2.6 sorts it out for me.
So many enormous features, waiting curiously for the final release
I tok a chance and updated my current blog, to WP 2.6 b1.. and it’s working perfectly 🙂 Just some small problems with NextGEN Gallery, but I can live with that.
Thank you.
Nice job.
omg! where’s the widget enabling on different pages?
(http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4280)
Good to hear. It seems like only last week that I migrated from another domain, upgraded from 2.3.x to 2.5.x, updated some core plug-ins, and had NO problems.
I will start beta testing 2.6 now so I will hopefully have a smooth transition when it is released!
Alan
It’s great to see that the development schedule is moving along quickly, and I love the post revisions feature – it’s great for my bigger blog where i have multiple editors, congrats to whoever had that idea 🙂
Still amazed that you’ve managed to get 2.6 scheduled for a whole month before it was actaully planned
Yay for word counting. 🙂
I’ll wait for the official release. I’m so excited it’ll release soon.
Sounds good guys 😉
Improved image editing and sortable galleries sounds hot.
Performance improvements are always welcome.
Leo Laporte recently mentioned on a TWiT podcast that when one tests betas and release candidates, the final products don’t seem as shockingly awesome.
For that reason, I’ll stick with the stable version of WordPress for now, even though I’ve been beta testing PHP software for years.
Keep up the good development, and I hope to see WordPress 2.6 soon!
I’m excited for the theme preview, only tonight was I just thinking that WordPress should have it!
Sounds wonderful. I trust WP!
I don´t know how this WordPress community thing works, or what the deal is with WP, but i dicovered WordPress about 10 months ago, and loved it. I use it on five domains i own. But 2.5 was a disaster. For three months i´ve been looking for help with the image uploader, and it looks like i´m not the only one.
And something happened with the possibilities to control the widgets…
And the strange thing is – i haven’t heard or seen a written word from anyone working with WordPress. Nothing!? Not a comment? As if there was no problem.
In the dasboard i can read news about WP but everythings is good, great, fantastic, even better…
I live close to the Soviet Union and the WordPress community reminds a little bit about the regimen there, in the way of denying facts.
Whats wrong with 2.5.1? And what can we do?
It would have been so easy to give an explanation.
I don´t know if you are one of them, but I´ve had enough.
Tonight i´m gonna check Drupal… heard a lot about it lately…
I really like these changes. The theme preview and the bulk plugin stuff is especially great.
Is there any chance at all that 2.6 might address the usability problems 2.5 introduced to the Write screens? Moving the tags and categories below the editing field was a horrible change for a lot of us.
I am really excited about this! Word counts, faster jquery, batch plugin enabling and disabling… sounds like just what the doctor ordered.
Good to hear!But it did not intend to upgrade to the latest version
Great, downloading just now. I love new stuff 😀
Curious about this news features… 😛
All of this sounds great, but why aren’t we seeing a better post editor, specifically something that’s a bit more XHTML-friendly? That’s probably one of the biggest nuances from an author’s standpoint in WordPress.
不错不错，升级一下试试，呵呵，这次更新的几个重点非常有吸引力。
For theme/plugin authors looking to add new default avatars (for example, one that matches your theme), check out this post on my blog. I documented the API.
I already love WP2.5 and guess, this would be great!
Sounds great I’m almost done updating to 2.51. Very interested in “Drag-and-drop sortable galleries”. Haven’t tried yet but will there be a way to add and subtract from galleries? Or even list different galleries?
Yeah!!
i’am waiting for admin SSL support 😀
Hierarchy-aware paging in the Manage Pages and Manage Categories admin pages.
WOW, someone heard me! 🙂 🙂 🙂 It was about time, if the pages+ plugin wasn’t working with 2.5.1, I would’ve been crying as the list of pages I have on the site I linked blocks my whole computer and I can’t open anything else if I’m loading it.
People with HUGE websites are thankful for this, honestly.
Woohoo! It’s so exciting to know that WordPress is still under constantly being updated!
Nice job!
In comment 22 I stated a bug that I came across, I just wanted to let you know that when I deactivated Register Plus it went away. I have already let the plugin maker know about this.
I’ve just installed 2.5.1 but the new version sounds great – especially the theme previewing. I’d probably wait a wee while until they come up with cooler stuff before upgrading.
My site can not be viewed in IE since the installation of 2.6. It seems to be working fine with FireFox and Safari for windows.
For a complete list of updates in WordPress 2.6 Beta 1, head over here
Finally Press it! That is one feature I wanted for fast blogging. Thanks for it and Bye bye tumblr!
hi,
Was there a solution to the problem Jeremy was having: Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, ‘version_warning’ was given in /home/content/f/a/m/famousbeats/html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 311?
I am having the same exact thing happening. I tried beta 2 to see if it was fixed but no such luck. Is it a plugin that has the wrong version or something?
Thanks for any and all help with this problem,
Peter
Just installed 2.6 – one bug that bothered me still exists – when editing a post, categories I never selected mysteriously get pre-filled for me – seemingly at random, sometimes just one added category I didn’t mean to fill and sometimes 3-4 categories. Thx.