The long awaited 2.5 release of the great blog engine is out! WordPress 2.5 has officially been released. Along with the release is a refresh of most WordPress properties, including WordPress.org.
Here is a link to WordPress 2.5.
Recent Blog Posts
WordPress 2.5 Not ready yet!
March 26th, 2008
In my last post about release of WordPress 2.5, I mention that it’s impossible for the development team to release the version on the scheduled date as there were still so many issues are not resolved.
John Havlik quite rightly points out the main reasons for delay and I could not disagree with him. There are a good number of tickets were moved to 2.6 as there was no patch or developer assigned to them.
Matt released a Screencast and WordPress 2.5 RC2 covering the new dashboard and uploader and Release Candidate 2.
Also looking at Milestone 2.5 its seems the development team decided that it would be good idea they would release 2.5 after most of us have expired by setting the due date to 22 years in future. But little clue that suggest that it may be released on the April 1st, but hey they are just playing April Fool on us all.
WordPress 2.5 Release Candiate 1
March 18th, 2008
I must be the first to notice that WordPress team has just bumped the version number to Release Candidate 1. Also to follow that there is a post Sneak Peeks into details of what has been done.
WordPress 2.5 Due soon, Would the team make the target?
March 11th, 2008
There is a lot of good work being done by the development team. I have been monitoring the changes using CommitMonitor and also looking at the Wordpress Milestone 2.5. But from what I can see even though all this updates are coming its going to be a tough given that the deadline has been moved twice (once because 2.4 was never released | WordPress 2.5 Delayed a Week) now. Not to mention there are over 400 Active tickets as I am writing this.
I wish the developers good luck in getting it done in the next 6 says. But I am not hopeful that they will be ready for to release it by then.
According to lorelle “Indeed, WordPress 2.4 has now been removed from the WordPress Roadmap, and WordPress 2.5 is still scheduled for March 24, 2008″. Now that seems more positive and reasonable to me.