What to expect in WordPress 2.9

I just received an email from the WordPress Development mailing list outlining some of the major developments in WordPress 2.9. Here’s what to it says:

WordPress 2.9 is currently in beta and is expected to be ready in several weeks.

Major new features for developers:
- comments meta table
- improved support for custom post types
- register_theme_directory() for additional theme locations
- back-ported JSON encode/decode for both PHP and JavaScript

and for users:
- oEmbed support
- “Trash” for posts, pages and comments
- post thumbnails support
- basic image editor

More details are available in the Codex http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.9 and on trac.

Some great stuff. Looking forward to it.

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