There are a few changes from the beta version, the most obvious of which is the navigation, which now uses a more traditional dropdown style. As I’ve said before, this is not really to my taste, and has obvious usability problems for user agents without hover, but it seems to be what people want. I may release the expanding navbar code as a plugin for those who prefer it.

WordPress 3.2 is required to run this build of Tarski. If you try to use it with WordPress 3.1 or earlier it will throw errors and make your site unusable.

The new features include support for menus and default headers; however, migrating your current settings will have to be done by hand, as I just don’t have the time to write or maintain an automatic upgrade routine. It shouldn’t take long to fix things to your liking, and the benefit is full compatibility with the core WordPress functionality.

I’d really appreciate it if you could download and install the release candidate. Andreas Beer has kindly been helping me test it, so it should be relatively bug-free by now. Testing and reporting bugs is not just a favour to me, but a boon to all Tarski users.

Update: thanks to everyone who provided feedback. Tarski 3.0.0 is now available for download.

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.

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.

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.

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.