We’re at that exciting point in WordPress development where the dev team feels like version 2.9 is complete and ready for the world.
If you’ve been waiting for your moment to pitch in, it’s now. First we need tech savvy testers to upgrade their blogs and kick the tires, make sure everything is rolling like you expect it to. Here’s a list of all the fun and geeky new stuff in 2.9 to try out. Second, and more importantly, we need everyone to test out their plugin compatibility.
If you’re a user of plugins, there’s a groovy new compatibility feature on the plugin directory where you can vote on whether a plugin is compatible with a version or not and it’ll get registered in the new plugin compatibility checker. This is as a replacement to the old wiki-based lists we’d do before. To see it in action check out this Akismet plugin page, as you can see 14 people have already registered that it’s compatible with 2.9.
If you’re a plugin author, of course you should update your “Tested up to:” in the readme.txt for your plugin.
If all goes according to plan, WordPress 2.9 will be out before the end of the week. You can download the release candidate here.
For more details on the changes since Beta please review the revision log on Trac, and happy testing!
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Generate Xdebug code coverage reports
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This class can be used to generate Xdebug code coverage reports.
It queries Xdebug extension about code coverage information.
The class can generate PHP scripts and HTML pages to display code coverage information reports.
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Get information about disk volumes
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This class can be used to get information about disk volumes.
It can query the operating system about the disk space of the available volumes.
The class executes commands that check the volumes either under Windows or Linux and other Unix-like systems.
The AMD x86 Open64 Compiler Suite has been added to the
Free C/C++ Compilers and Interpreters page.
This optimizing compiler for C/C++ (and also Fortran) can generate both 32-bit and 64-bit code, and has numerous other
features. For those who are thinking of writing C or C++ programs, there are
now 36 C/C++ compilers listed on that page so even
if this newest entry doesn't appeal to you, you'll probably be able to find something suitable. And for those who only go for
well-known brands, note that major brands like Microsoft, Apple, Intel, AMD, Sun, etc, are also listed, since they too provide compilers for free.
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Convert PDF documents to images using Ghostscript
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This class can be used to convert PDF documents to images using Ghostscript.
It takes an uploaded PDF file and converts it into JPEG images using the Ghostscript program.
The converted images are stored in files numbered according to the respective PDF document page.
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Generate HTML to embed audio and video players
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This class can be used to generate HTML to embed audio and video players.
It uses the DOMDocument extension to generate HTML for embedding audio and video clips in Web pages without resorting to Javascript.
The class supports several types of players, like Flow Player, Windows Media Player, HTML 5 audio and video tags. Separate sub-classes are provided to support variants of the Flow Player.
A new virtual machine from Microsoft has been added to the
Free x86 / PC Emulators and Virtual Machines page.
Virtual machines and emulators let you run another operating system (even the same one you're using if that's what you wish)
within your current system, without having to reboot or use another computer. For example, run Windows on Mac OS X, or run XP on
Vista at the same time, etc. They are useful if you want to test programs but don't want them affecting or harming your
main system, run programs that don't work in your current system, etc.
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Parse and analyze HTML documents
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This class can be used to parse and analyze HTML documents.
It used the DOM document extension to parse HTML documents.
The class can also analyze the parsed documents and return the document encoding, DOCTYPE, base URL, meta tags, title, links, images, document text, words in tags h1, title, a, a title, img alt, words weights and density.
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Submit ZIP archives to Produce and Publish servers
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This class can be used to send ZIP archives to Produce and Publish servers.
It can create ZIP archives of all the files to publish in a given directory.
The class can send XML-RPC requests to submit the archives to a given Produce an Publish server.
