WordPress 2.1 is officially Released!

Two hours ago Matt Mullenweg announce that the new version of Wordpress is officially released!

Of course you heard a lot about it and about the new features included, there are a lot of new things in this release first thing is the name of the version! Matt decided to call it “Ella”, named for jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald. Anyway here`re the new features:

• Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again.
• Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.
• The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you to move your content between WordPress blogs.
• Our completely redone visual editor also now includes spell checking.
• New search engine privacy option allows you take you to indicate your blog shouldn’t ping or be indexed by search engines like Google.
• You can set any “page” to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a content management system.
• Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions. Domas Mituzas from MySQL went over all our queries with a fine-toothed comb.
• Links in your blogroll now support sub-categories and you can add categories on the fly.
• Redesigned login screen from the Shuttle project.
• More AJAX to make custom fields, moderation, deletions, and more all faster. My favorite is the comments page, which new lets you approve or unapprove things instantly.
• Pages can now be drafts, or private.
• Our admin has been refreshed to load faster and be more visually consistent.
• The dashboard now instantly and brings RSS feeds asynchronously in the background.
• Comment feeds now include all the comments, not just the last 10.
• Better internationalization and support for right-to-left languages.
• The upload manager lets you easily manage all your uploads pictures, video, and audio.
• A new version of the Akismet plugin is bundled.

Matt says that there are much more features that you would discover when you download and use WordPress 2.1. From the way Matt is talking you can feel how much he is excited and so how really this release is worth the work that WordPress.org`s Developers did!

Matt said:

Developers will especially love this release, as it has much cleaner code than 2.0 and includes hundreds of enhancements that will enable a new generation of richer plugins.

and he lists some of the things included in this release. He continued talking about the future and for the first time in WordPress’ history, Matt announces that the next version will come out in April 23rd.
It`s really an interesting year and there are a lot of competition is coming up(The Release of Habari)
Please Note That you should check first what Plugins are compatible with this release! For this check out this page.

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