WordPress 2.9 beta 1新功能列表

后台更新：

• Trash status for posts, pages, comments and attachments (includes restore and permanent delete)
• Add support for ‘include’ and ‘exclude’ to {gallery} (Gallery Shortcode)
• Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client
• Add support for sticky posts to the WXR exporter and importer
• rel=canonical for singular pages
• Scroll back to the same location after saving a file in the Plugin and Theme editors
• Correct comments and remove unecessary echos from the default themes sidebar templete file
• Enable the APP (Atom) attachment file download to work correctly
• Support location of category templates based on ‘category-slug’ as well as ‘category-id’ (Ticket 10614)
• Support location of tag templates based on ‘tag-id’ as well as ‘tag-slug’ (Ticket 10868)
• Support location of page templates based on ‘page-slug’ and ‘page-id’
• Set “Allow my blog to appear in search engines” to checked in installation
• Don’t offer to make a category its own parent
• Remove Sphere from search list
• Minify admin CSS
• Show correct max upload filesize error message
• Add rel attribute to next/previous post links
• Make the default and classic themes comment textareas valid XHTML
• Clean up .button and .button[disabled] CSS classes, add spinner and gray-out buttons after clicking Publish or Update post
• Fix race condition with autosave when clicking Publish immediately after entering post title
• Add Comments for Pages in the WordPress Default theme
• Define $content_width for Kubrick
• Better feedback on publishing of future posts and pages
• Display comments in descending date order, consistently
• Add means of automatically repairing tables
• Fix Press This bookmarklet for Safari 4
• Give plugins and themes simple control over the text displayed at the end of an autogenerated Excerpt
• Don’t show “Change Permalinks” button when editing the page set as “Front page”
• Image editing
• Retire BunnyTags importer
• Retire Jerome’s keywords importer
• Explain that the permalink is temporary for autosave generated permalinks
• Update SimplePie to 1.2
• Press This fixes
• Eliminate the redundant and confusing comment threading depth of 1

开发者，主题、插件更新列表：

• Added ‘excerpt_more‘ filter to wp_trim_excerpt() function, which allow developers to change excerpt ‘[…]‘ more string (Ticket 10395)
• Add ‘smilies_src‘ filter so plugins can better add smilies
• Canonical redirects for post name queries
• Allow _wp_get_comment_list to handle custom comment types
• Return an empty array instead of false for get_children() when no children found
• Add some filters so that HTTP requests can be filtered
• Move plugin update notice output to the plugin specific hook
• Limit wp-mail ‘blog by email’ checks to every 5 minutes
• Make it much easier to filter contact methods from user profiles
• Allow filtering of get_edit_post_link for custom post_type
• ‘get_sample_permalink_html‘ filter
• Enforce activation key to be a string, reject activation keys that are arrays
• Respect custom post_type in queries
• Send Retry-After header when in maintenance mode
• Various WP Filesystem related fixes and documentation
• Add constants for ftp connections timeouts
• Increase timeout on cron-based requests when checking for upgrades
• Don’t use has_action() before do_action() in http.php
• Speed up jQuery based scripts
• Use the current user as author for autosave
• Show My Posts as default view on the Edit Posts screen for users without ‘edit_others_posts’ cap
• Ensure that drafts viewed over XMLRPC have a correct gmt date set
• Pass user id to ‘get_’ the_author_meta filters
• Move _wp_get_user_contactmethods() into the registrations functions file
• Machine parseable db error codes
• Add global JS vars and actions to the media uploader iframe
• Add JSON compat for PHP < 5.2
• Make option_name the primary key for the options table
• Allow a plugin to do a complete takeover of Post by Email
• Logarithmic scale for tag cloud
• Pass Post ID to the ‘get_comments_number‘ filter
• Always filter the url in the media upload form
• Add a ‘the_terms‘ filter
• is_blog_installed() improvements
• Allow force_ssl_admin() to properly accept false as a value
• Pass logged_in cookie to async-upload and filter the cookie scheme in auth_redirect()
• Add more actions around database add/delete/update operations
• phpDoc for wp_”check|set”_post_lock functions
• Use the old strings which are more translator friendly and add a generic default string to aid re-use by plugins adding post_types
• Filter fields through kses upon display and introduce sanitize_user_object() and sanitize_user_field()
• Use null instead of 0 when setting content length
• Include ‘hidden’ directories in filesystem dirlist by default
• Pass args array to ‘wp_list_pages‘ filter
• Actions for taxonomy updates
• Key should be comment_id not post_id in comments table
• Add get_delete_post_link to retrieve delete posts link for post
• Add ‘separator‘ parameter to wp_tag_cloud() and wp_generate_tag_cloud()functions (Ticket 10315)
• Added add_comment_meta() family of functions

延伸阅读：WordPress 2.9 beta1 发布