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Yesterday, wordpress development has just announce the availability of Wordpress 2.7 RC1. This release should have brought the new icon from the Icon Design Contest, which was held last month. This release candidate are should be please many of the wordpress fans out there, since the 2.7 version is surely something that was worth waiting for.

I have just finished upgrading my 2.6.5 version of wordpress to this RC version in my other blog. And it looks like stable enough to be use in a live website. But of course, with so many changes in their administration screen layout some few plugins definitely will gonna need an update to be used with this release. The changes to the plugin, is should be quite minimal I believe. In my other blog the plugin that I have found need slight modification is All in One SEO Pack. Well it’s just a cosmetic modification, their input box is not blend correctly with the new 2.7 version editor screen layout. Some plugins that add button to the editor toolbar should also need to be checked.

In my other blog, when editing is made some times it throw an error of not finding the edited page. I’m not sure if it was a bug in this version, or is it because my connection to the server which was a bit unstable at the time I test the functionality. The upgrade process from 2.6.5 version to this RC1 version is run quite well, no problem arised in the process. But be carefull when you want to do the upgrade your own blog. Don’t forget to always do a full backup of your blog before you do it. It’s better to be safe than sorry.

Wordpress 2.7 Beta 3 is now officialy has been released to the public for testing. There are more than 160 changes since the last beta release. Some of the changes are : 

• Numerous style improvements and refinements.
• All admin notices now go under the page title.
• PHP Notice fixes.
• Dashboard widget options now properly save.
• Menu fixes.
• New design for Quick Edit.
• Canonical feed URL fixes.
• Walker fixes.
• An update for Hello Dolly.
• Plugin installer updates.
• Numerous font updates.
• Updated login logo.
• Switch position of “Save Draft” and “Preview” buttons in publish module.
• File upload support for MS Office 2007+ file formats.
• Media upload buttons won’t show if the user doesn’t have the upload capability.
• Canonical redirects only do yes-www or no-www redirection for domains.
• Shift-click checkbox range selection improvement.
• Add New User page now separate.
• Tag suggest only suggests tags (not other taxonomy terms).
• QuickPress shows “Submit for Review” if user cannot publish.
• Private posts/pages, and password-protected posts/pages are rolled into new “Visibility” section of publish module.

Wordpress developer team has released the beta 2 of the 2.7 wordpress version. Here is some of the changes that was made compared to the Beta 1 version. 

• The Upload button didn’t always show. Fixed.
• JS on the Dashboard broke for blogs with no comments, causing several UI elements to “freeze”. Fixed.
• Recent Drafts Dashboard module didn’t show correct times. Fixed.
• Various Autosave fixes.
• Redirect after deleting a page from the editor went back to the deleted page. Fixed.
• Fixed loading of translations for default TinyMCE plugins.
• Added avatars to the edit users list.
• Added some missing translations.
• Fixed some validation errors.
• Fixed some PHP warnings and notices.
• Handle inconsistent file permissions during auto upgrade
• Change Publish box layout to better accommodate internationalized text
• Fix quick editing of the last page in the Edit Pages list
• Fix Screen Options for IE
• Fixes for choose tag from tag cloud
• Rewrite rules fixes for certain hosts
• Don’t check for updates on every page load
• Easier post box dropping
• Preview fixes
• RTL fixes
• Fixed broken wp-mail
• Plugin update and install fixes
• First draft of contextual help tab

For those who already installed the Beta 1 version, could just simply upgrade from the admin screen just go to the Tools -> Update Menu. Unfortunately there was a bug in the auto update process of Beta 1, so if problem arise better be prepared to make manual upgrade.

Finally the wordpress 2.7 Beta 1 has been released. As said in many blog post, this new version bring out some fresh visual design. Unfortunately there is still some glitches in browser display, but the developer are promised that it will be fixed before final release. Because of this the final release date which was set at 10th November 2008, has been changed. The developer are now about two weeks behind schedule and need more time for user testing. 

At 10th November, the developer planned to get out a Release Candidate version. Which intended to be a high quality, almost-finished release that should comfortable enough to be used. After that a high impact bug that found after the release will be fixed. And the final release should get out in the end of November. 

Me myself has just downloaded the beta release, and will try to install this version in my localhost. I will post out a report on this testing.