The penny has dropped, the vuvuzelas have sounded and the kitties have played themselves out. WordPress 3.0 has been officially released. Check out the official release post from Matt. I’ve been watching the download counter whirl by. This release marks the official end of separate WordPressMU development. The exisiting functionality is now a part of [...]
WordPress 3.0 beta is out
… and what we really need is for WPMU users to test it out. Please do not do this on a production site. Ideally, have a test site you can play with (many MU people do) and just manually upgrade the WPMU install to the WordPress beta. Poke around, see if anything broke. If you [...]
20th Anniversary
Today is our (Ron & I) 20th Wedding Anniversary. As part of our celebration, we are offering a one day 20% discount on all of our digital products. The coupon code is RonAndreaX20 and it expires at 11:59PM tonight. The coupon can be used on any of the following: Premium BuddyPress Themes Simple Multi-Site e-book/Plugin [...]
2.9.2 released
Yesterday, Donncha released WordPress MU version 2.9.2. 2.9.2 contains fixes for the major outstanding bugs in MU. Unless a security issue surfaces in either WordPress or WordPress MU, this is expected to be the last version of MU. Thanks Donncha
BuddyPress rc1
BuddyPress reached Release Candidate status this week. Get BP rc-1 over here (zip). Also, the new 2010 default theme has just hit the repo. Scroll down on that page and you’ll get the zip of the theme.
The Benevolence of the WP Community
Over the weekend, there was yet another awesome WordCamp over in Boston. I am still bummed we were unable to go. But! We followed along at home, and there was some great news. WPcares was launched during the event to raise money for Haiti. The original goal was $1,000. Last I checked, it was over [...]
Testers, start your engines
The bulk of the merge has been done in WordPress core. At least with regards to moving over the files. Now the fun part begins: bug gardening, testing and tweaking. Here’s what you can do to help not only the dev team and others, but also yourself: – set up a local install of WPMU [...]
WPMU trac now read-only
The trac for MU is now closed and all remaining tickets will be moved over to WP trac. source I know there’s a couple bugs in the latest release: people are working on it.
Proposed timeline
Jane have given a summary over on the Wordress Dev blog for the general timeline of the next release. Which is, as you know, 3.0. And though it looks pretty straightforward, there’s tons of lines of code to sift through and a whole pile of trac tickets. You guys know the drill.
2.9.1 released, last before merge
It’s officially out: WPMU 2.9.1. As Donncha says, this will likely be the last release before 3.0 and the merge. PLEASE see the info about adding the new commentsmeta table. (Wow, what a crazy ride. )

