The next major release of Wordpress 2.2 is scheduled to be released around 26 April 2007. This is the next latest release since Wordpress 2.1 was made in January 2007.

Wordpress 2.2 spot major improvement over the previous Wordpress architecture among it :

• It includes the new ATOM API support for managing post (like blogger.com)
• Uses phpmailer to handle mail related code
  (reduce burden to wordpress developer to spot bugs/vulnerability)
• Support multiple comment feed format (RSS, ATOM)
• Uses the lighter jQuery for JS core library which is lighter (thus faster)
• Includes Widgetized default themes (Kubrick and Classics)
• Plugin sandboxing for testing new plugins

The addition of ATOM API and ATOM 1.0 feeds is a much awaited feature for blogging geeks since both of it has been supported in blogger.com, and considered superior to XML-RPC interface and RSS syndication feeds.

p/s : I've been using the Wordpress 2.0.x branch for compatibility reason with most of my plugins. Since, most of my plugins has been ported to 2.1, may be this is a good time for me to upgrade to the latest Wordpress 2.2.x branch after this.

Alternative post : Wordpress by Examples

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