Mark your calendars: WordCamp San Francisco , the official annual WordPress conference, will be August 12-14, 2011. This year will mark the 5th anniversary of WordCamp, and as always will feature Matt Mullenweg’s “State of the Word” address as well as a variety of amazing speakers that you’d normally only get to see at expensive industry...

WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate 3 is now available. After careful evaluation of the 3.1 features in RC2, we recognized the need to make some adjustments. There are some significant differences from previous versions of 3.1. Therefore, please review the changes if you have been developing against a beta or RC version. The biggest change is the removal...

WordPress 3.1 is on the way, The second release candidate for WordPress 3.1 is now available for testing and download. The WordPress 3.1 requisite haiku: Rounding up stragglers Last few bugs for WordPress 3.1 Go test WordPress 3.1 RC2 As WordPress.org outlined in the announcement post for WordPress 3.1 RC1 , release candidates are the last stop...

3.0.4 Important Security Update. Version 3.0.4 of WordPress, available immediately through the update page in your dashboard or for download here. It is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. I would rate this release as “critical.” I...

I am often asked how decisions are made for WordPress, who’s involved in decision-making, and how the open source project is structured in general. WordPress is a meritocracy, meaning that anyone can get involved, and a combination of the quality of someone’s contributions and their level of interest/time commitment will determine how much influence...

The first release candidate (RC1) for WordPress 3.1 is now available. An RC comes after the beta period and before final release. That means we think we’re done. We currently have no known issues or bugs to squash. But with tens of millions of users, a variety of configurations, and thousands of plugins, it’s possible we’ve missed something....

WordPress 3.1 Beta 2 !!! Haikus from Jane on her 39th birthday: Practice makes perfect is what they say about things, but sometimes it’s not. In this case it is not practice but refinement, and then more testing. You can help WordPress! Now: 3.1, beta 2 is here; needs testing. But! Remember this: Only install on test sites, as YMMV. The second beta...

WordPress 3.0.3 is available! WordPress 3.0.3 is available and is a security update for all previous WordPress versions. This release fixes issues in the remote publishing interface, which under certain circumstances allowed Author- and Contributor-level users to improperly edit, publish, or delete posts. These issues only affect sites that have remote...

WordPress 3.0.2 is here to download. WordPress 3.0.2 is available and is a mandatory security update for all previous WordPress versions. Haiku has become traditional: Fixed on day zero One-click update makes you safe. This used to be hard… This maintenance release fixes a moderate security issue that could allow a malicious Author-level user...

WordPress 3.1 Beta 1 is released. It’s that time in the release cycle again, when all the features are basically done, and we’re just squashing bugs. To the brave of heart and giving of soul: Won’t you help us test the new version of WordPress? If all goes well, we hope to release WordPress 3.1 to the world at large by the end of the year,...