WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 is available for download. You can download WordPress Beta, test and file bugs.
WordPress 2.8 has many new features. Here are a few
- New Theme Installer routines
- Make tags accessible without Javascript on the edit screen
- Don’t ask for confirmation when marking a comment as spam
- Don’t notify post author of own comments
- Improved Admin icons
- Improved Widget user interface
- Allow editing of all plugin files
- Improved Plugin search
- Per Page option for plugins
- Move “Install a plugin in .zip format”
- Permalink editor changes and fix for pages
- Autosave post/page when pressing Control/Command+S
- Support more than one gallery on the same page
- Check for new version when visiting Administration
- Add description field for tags
- In upgrade process, provide better explanation for database upgrade message
- Enforce unique email addresses in Add/Edit users
- Make user_nicenames unique during registration
- Use invisible class for hiding labels and legends
- Use a semantic class name for text targeted to screen readers