WordPress continues it’s tradition of rolling out upgrades at a breakneck pace. WordPress 2.8 dubbed “Baker” in honor of Jazz trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker, was released tonight with over 180 new features, changes, upgrades, and improvements.
WordPress claims that, “First and foremost, 2.8 is way faster to use,” so far I haven’t noticed that much of a difference in the speed, but I will say that their work on the plugins interface is much welcomed and long overdue.
There aren’t a lot of new bells and whistles in this release, that was what 2.7 was for. 2.8 is just cleaning up that release and make it run much faster and more efficiently.
This release (at least not at the time of this post) did not trigger an update this theme in the dashboard, you actually have to go download it and do it the old fashioned way for now.
You can also watch the video overview of 2.8 after the jump.
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