Wordpress 2.9 “Carmen” Released!
by Karlo Licudine on December 19th, 2009 
4 Comments
The long awaited version 2.9 of WordPress, codenamed “Carmen”, is now out! Eeek!
Yes, ladies and gents, the development team worked their butts off as quickly as they can to have Carmen available before Christmas. And boy, did they surprise us!
For those of you who don’t know what Carmen has to offer, here’s a list of some of her features!
- Global undo/”trash” feature, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also eliminates those annoying “are you sure” messages we used to have on every delete.
- Built-in image editor allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images to show them who’s boss. This is the first wave of our many planned media-handling improvements.
- Batch plugin update and compatibility checking, which means you can update 10 plugins at once, versus having to do multiple clicks for each one, and we’re using the new compatibility data from the plugins directory to give you a better idea of whether your plugins are compatible with new releases of WordPress. This should take the fear and hassle out of upgrading.
- Easier video embeds that allow you to just paste a URL on its own line and have it magically turn it into the proper embed code, with Oembed support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv (and more in the next release).
These are just from a user standpoint, there are lots of changes on the development side as well. I suggest heading over to this page to see the full list of features.
So what are you waiting for? Don’t let Carmen just stand there in the cold! Let her in! You can download the latest version manually by going here. Or by going to your blog’s dashboard and clicking on Tools > Upgrade.
Now that’s over, the only thing to wait for is Christmas! Happy holidays!
WordPress 2.9 will become a classical version.
Thanks for the info i cant stress how important it is to keep your wp up to date,
as i got hacked a while ago and lost over a years work.
I now have a secure install buy using the free
expert wordpress installer.
There is a post on my blog explaining it just click
on my name above.
Keep up the good work….
I was so excited about wordpress 2.9 but after its release when I updated it, I landed with 2-3 tech issues… I checked into the forum and realize its not only me
other users are facing similar issues…