WordPress 2.6 is live; I just updated from 2.6 RC1 to 2.6 live here.

Download from http://wordpress.org/download/

Main highlights:

• post differencing
• support for Google Gears

There’s an offical blog post about it here: http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26-tyner/ - with a great video overview.

Now live:

http://wordpress.org/development/2007/12/wordpress-232/

Download from:

http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.3.2.zip
http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.3.2.tar.gz

Works well so far.

Just a quick note; WordPress 2.3.1 adds support for WLW Keywords.

Some nomenclature changes - tags to keywords; but it works just great.

Here are the Keywords in WLW:

… and the corresponding tags in WordPress:

 I’ve been hosting a family blog and photo site for a good friend for over a year.

They decided recently to ‘lock down’ the site and restrict access to both the blog and the photos to family and friends only.

I spent some of yesterday doing this.

I’ve extensively use WPG2 to integrate WordPress and Gallery2 - and I use the permissions and roles within Gallery2 to successfully limit access to pictures. The most striking example of this is with my sisters Cub Scout web site; non members can read blog posts; but not view pictures.

Securing the WordPress side was a little more tricky. Drupal has a very strong permissions module -especially useful for the anonymous user. Nothing like that for WordPress.

In the end I used the post-levels plugin from Filipe Fortes - it needed some SQL mungling to work with WordPress 2.3 - but the end results were pretty good.

I’ve just updated most of the hosted blogs to WordPress 2.3 - so far so good.

I need to update the integrated photo stuff to Gallery 2.2 as well - that’s going to be a lot more involved and needs some good planning and change control.

Away from home and the WordPress updates come in..

2.2.3 is a security update; also 2.3 Release Candidate 1 should be out tomorrow.

I also bumped the version of subscribe2 on the family blog - that fixed a lot of problems

The paint is still wet - but it looks like it works

Some plugins (feedwordpress) look like they are broken.

I’m looking forward to this release - improvements to the javascript, better url redirection and at last built in tags!

The tags look like they are using a similar idea to the Drupal taxonomy concepts - should be interesting.

I’ve not blogged about WordPress patches and updates for a while - I’ve been just that busy.

This weekend another two patches - for 2.2.x and 2.0.x

 So far so good - easy and clean updates.

Worth an upgrade too - looking at the code changes there seems to be a lot of additional checking and url handling safety.

From the dev lists:

The target release date for WordPress 2.2 is less than a month away, April 23rd.

Phew. Patch and relax. Update and relax. Patch and relax.

When Matt and the others from Automattic said they’d be stepping up the frequency of updates - I didn’t expect this

It’s good though. Lots of new features promised for 2.2 and especially 2.3/2.4 and beyond.

“Ella” is here.

A long beta program - and it looks sweet.

Download from here.