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2.6 Release Candidate 2

December 21, 2009 by Ben Eastaugh | 13 comments

With WordPress 2.9 out of the door, I figured it was time to get the ball rolling on the latest Tarski release. There are some fairly extensive improvements to some areas of the internals, so I would very much appreciate some testing before I release the final version.

Highlights of the changes include drawing header images and alternate styles from child themes, support for the new post thumbnails, and a switch to the HTML5 DOCTYPE.

If you test it, can you send me the string of your tarski_options option both before and after the upgrade? You can get it from your database by running the following SQL query on the database where WordPress is installed.

SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'tarski_options';

Thanks!

Update

Found some bugs in the upgrade routine already. RC2 is now out, use that instead.

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Since the core team decided to do another release candidate, I thought I’d put one out too. Get it while it’s hot.

Tarski 2.4 RC2 has much better trackback support, adds an extra save button to the bottom of the options page, and improves the update notifier’s HTTP transport checking. There are also various bits of refactoring that shouldn’t impact on the user experience. I should also note that the tag is on GitHub if you want to grab it that way.

December 10, 2008 by Ben Eastaugh | Permalink

WordPress 2.7 is going to be released very soon, and a pretty stable release candidate is available, so now seems like an appropriate moment to put an RC of our own up for download.

Tarski 2.4 RC1 is essentially feature-complete; it will only work on WordPress 2.7, so if you have WordPress 2.6 or earlier, don’t install this version of Tarski. Bug reports are extremely welcome and should be posted on the forum.

Update: Ryan Boren tells us that “The final release of 2.7 won’t be here until next week.” Tarski 2.4 will follow shortly after that.

December 3, 2008 by Ben Eastaugh | 4 comments

I don’t usually publicise release candidate downloads, but because Tarski 2.3 includes some fairly major changes to its upgrade process, I thought it could benefit from wider testing than I can manage alone.

The usual caveats about pre-release software apply: don’t use it on a production site, run it locally or on a development server with a copy of your production database. If you have Subversion, you can get it from our svn trunk.

Please post any bugs or feedback on the forum.

August 3, 2008 by Ben Eastaugh | 3 comments