svn

Putting out a new release of Tarski involves a fair few elements: tagging a new release in Subversion, creating a zip file and moving that to the downloads directory, updating the changelog, writing a release post, and finally updating the version feed so that existing users get notified about the new version.

All this is an increasingly automated process: I still have to publish the release post and update the changelog manually, but pretty much everything else can be done with a couple of tweaks to a config file and one shell command: rake tarski:update (actually you can just do rake since tarski:update is the default task).

You can now download my toolset from GitHub. Obviously to do so you’ll need Git, as well as Ruby and Rake to run it. If you have any questions, suggestions or bug reports, please let me know in the comments.

I’m very happy to have just uploaded Adam Klimowski’s translation of Tarski into Polish—the language of this theme’s namesake, Alfred Tarski. You can download it from our translations repository. Many thanks to Adam for that, as well as everyone else who’s provided a translation, all of whom are credited on the localisation page.

WordPress 2.4 has been cancelled, and we’ll be going straight to 2.5 in early March. Tarski 2.1 is being written for compatibility with that next version, and hence will be delayed until then too. Keep track of our plans for the release on the roadmap page (which has just moved from the ‘Help’ section to the ‘About’ section).

The major feature of Tarski 2.1 thus far is the move to entirely widgetised footers and sidebars. I’m in the midst of writing and testing an upgrade script to convert people’s current options to the new widget-based ones. If you have any comments or suggestions about that, please post on the forum. Patches, bug reports etc. should be posted on the issue tracker ticket for the changes.

I’ve updated the website with a link to the Tarski Subversion repository, specifically to the latest stable branch (which is what you should be using; 2.0.5 is the latest release from that branch). Hopefully more people will try using svn to keep their WordPress and Tarski installations updated; it’s a little more work initially, but it makes maintenance far, far easier, as well as allowing you to take advantage of the latest security fixes, general bug fixes, and other improvements with the minimum of effort. There are a bunch of tutorials out there on this subject (for example, this one). If people are interested I can write up a quick tutorial on how I keep things up to date on this site.

I’ve moved a couple of little plugins and templates onto our Subversion repository; you can find them in the extras directory. Hopefully this will make me more inclined to keep them updated—as they stand, they’ve been tested on the latest version of Tarski, but of course if you have any problems with them just post on the forum.

I wrote some .htaccess redirects, so all the old links should be redirecting (if you find any broken ones, please let me know). Tarski 2.0.5 should be out early next week, with the usual bug fixes and enhancements.