Less than a week from release of 3.1.4, WordPress decide to mark it’s next milestone on the Independence Day of America. And instead of calling 3.2 version 3.0 (where 3.0, 3.1 should be 2.10, 2.11 respectively), this will be the most important WordPress upgrade to-date.
WordPress 3.2 will have new system requirements:
- PHP 5.2.4 from PHP 4.3
- MySQL 5.0.15 from 4.1.2
- Remove support for IE 6 with degradation
Detailed list of new features are summarised on WordPress 3.2 release page, but as highlight:
- New admin interface
- A new theme “Twenty Eleven”
- Full screen editor feature
- Out-of-date browser notification
- Cache RSS output
In a Nutshell
- WordPress uncompressed folder size has increased by1.13 MB to 9.36 Mb
- 134 files added, 374 files modified and 11 files deleted. Within the wp-admin folder 17 files were added, 210 files modified and 4 files deleted.
- 2 additional table record added and 2 records are deleted.
The Full Length
Unlike the usual changelogs, this article will not cover file by file changes and majority of modifications are new features and refactor to PHP 5.2. A complete diff’ing coverage is available on WordPress trac.
Summary
This is a technical blog post covering implementation changes of latest WordPress, version 3.2 from its pervious version 3.1.4. I will line out code changes to help enthausiast PHP developer understanding the techniques and security concerns.