In June 2011, Version 3.2, will likely be released to the public. Estimated timeline is as follows: feature freeze at the end of April 2011, first beta release in May 12, first release candidate in early June, with a final release of June 30, 2011.
Also see WordPress 3.2, the plan: faster, lighter and Version 3.2 Project Schedule.
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Highlights
- Refreshed Administative UI - Admin redesign.
- New Default Theme “Twenty Eleven” - Uses the latest Theme Features.
- Full Screen Editor - Distraction free writing experience.
- Extended Admin Bar - More useful links to control the site.
- Requirements Changes -
- PHP 5.2.4 or greater (old requirement – since WordPress 2.5 was PHP 4.3 or greater).
- MySQL 5.0.15 or greater (old requirement – since WordPress 2.9 was MySQL 4.1.2 or greater).
- Enhanced Browser Compatibility -
- Drop Internet Explorer 6 support.
- Start End-of-life (EOL) cycle for Internet Explorer 7.
- Browse Happy notify users of out-of-date browser.
- WordPress is Faster -
- Faster page loads — We’ve gone through the most commonly loaded pages in WP and done improvements to their load time, for example the write page now loads XYZ% faster and paging through comments is ZYX% faster.
- Faster Upgrades — The update system now support incremental upgrades so after 3.2 you’ll find upgrading faster than ever e.g. FTP upgrade improvements.
- Optimisations to WP_Filesystem — pass known information to called functions.
- Streamline WP_Http_*::test() methods — Check basic SSL requirements, only allow filters to disable transports, not enable them after ::test() has failed.
- Take out unnecessary compat functions from compat.php.
- Constructor cleanup.
- Trimmed xx codes lines in core.
- Use stripos() instead of strpos( strtolower() ).
- Performance improvements for wptexturize().
- Remove PHP4 timezone support.
- More efficient term intersection query.
- kses optimization.
- Speed optimizations for is_serialized_string().
User Features
General
- Admin Bar: Add a Themes submenu under Appearance, for consistency
- Support Edit link on the Admin Bar for Attachments
- Switch from “Panel/SubPanel” to “Screen” in inline documentation and Codex links
- Add collapse link to admin menu
- Favorites menu no longer exists
- New Freedoms (rights) and Credits links at bottom of admin screens.
Dashboard
- Change View All Buttons into plain links
- Show full set of status links in recent comments box
- Drop “Change Theme” button
Posts
- Change Menu Name from ‘Posts’ to ‘All Posts’
- Show the sticky posts checkbox (“Stick this post to the front page”) Only when author has ‘edit_others_posts‘capability
- Updated styles for the Visual editor buttons
- Full screen editor experience called Distraction Free Writing – accessed via the Toggle Fullscreen mode tool in the Visual editor and fullscreen button in the HTML editor (Trac Ticket 17198)
Media
Links
- Change Menu Name from ‘Links’ to ‘All Links’
Pages
- Change Menu Name from ‘Pages’ to ‘All Pages’
Comments
Appearance
- New Default theme – TwentyEleven – based on Duster Theme (Trac Ticket 17198).
- Allow selecting previously uploader headers and randomly serving previously uploaded or default headers
- Denote images that are headers or backgrounds in the media ui
- Show hierarchy for pages and taxonomies in nav menus admin
- Introduce new is_multi_author() template tag to make it easier for themes to have different behaviour when a site has more than one author
Plugins
- Allow plugins to disable screen options with filter
Tools
- Change Menu Name from ‘Tools’ to ‘All Tools’
- Press This bookmarklet redesign
- Export commentmeta
Users
- Change Menu Name from ‘Users’ to ‘All Users’
Settings
Install Process
Multisite
- Show access denied page and list a user’s sites if they visit an admin they don’t have permissions for rather than redirecting to the users’ primary blog
- Make “Space Used” gray instead of green in multisite Right Now box
- Allow Pagination for Must-Use/Dropin plugins; respect WP_CONTENT_DIR & WPMU_PLUGIN_DIR for help text; move help text into WP_Plugins_List_Table
Development, Themes, Plugins
- Add an extra FTP_LANG_DIR override constant to short-circuit WP_Filesystem_Base::find_folder(WP_LANG_DIR)
- Add quotes to [value="some"] selectors re: jQuery
- Allow custom author elements such as email
- Allow get_pages() to support multiple post statuses
- Allow plugins to control user and network admin canonical redirect
- Allow plugins to hook into
wp-admin/update-core.php - Allow querying empty meta values
- Allow retrieving comments by post type, status, author, author, name, or parent. Fetch only published posts for recent comments widget.
- Allow taxonomies to be queried by $_GET parameters on non-taxonomy url’s
- Allow WP_Query ’post_status’ parameter to accept an array, as well as a singular value and comma separated list
- Centralize pagination bound exceeding redirects for list tables
- Change esc_url_raw references to esc_url
- Default WP_LANG_DIR to `WP_CONTENT_DIR/languages` when `wp-includes/languages/` doesn’t exist
- Deprecate wp_clone() but left the function in
wp-includes/load.php - Don’t load themes functions.php for upgrades
- Don’t refresh the admin menu after page load, apply the user-state from PHP, fix behaviour after folding the menu
- Don’t show broken ‘View’ links when a custom post type is not publicly queryable
- Ensure all theme searching is done case-insensitive
- Hide update bubble counts for users who can’t perform the update
- Introduce get_screen_icon()
- Introduce is_multi_author() to check if more than one author has published posts for this site
- Introduce Stream-To-File for the WP_HTTP API – reduces memory consumption during file downloads; implemented indownload_url() for upgraders
- Introduce wp_http_supports() as replacement for the http_transport_(get|post)_debug hooks
- Introduce WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT’ constant for the high memory limit set when image processing and unzipping; ensure it is always filterable by plugins as well as configurable in wp-config.php
- Introduce WP_Meta_Query and relation support
- Pass image URL’s to thickbox via L10n in script-loader.php; allows thickbox to be used on any page in the install without defining the image URL variables
- Properly handle https in ixr client
- Provide more arguments to the widgets on the 404 page so as to avoid notices
- Remove support for the PHP HTTP Extension from WP_HTTP. The PHP HTTP Extension is a wrapper around libcurl andfopen() providing limited configuration and is supported on a minority of servers due to its non-default inclusion
- Set is_* flags for AND taxonomy queries
- Set the mb_string internal encoding to ISO-8859-1 whilst uncompressing archives using PclZip; fixes ‘PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Invalid block size’ errors on systems utilising mbstring.func_overload
- Stop themes and plugins from overriding the admin bar CSS
- Update jQuery to 1.6.1
- Update jQuery UI to 1.8.2
- Update json2.js
- Update phpass
- Update phpmailer and smtp to 5.1
- Update pop3 class
- Update TinyMCE to 3.4.2 (Trac Ticket 17086)
- Updated PHPdocs for XML-RPC functions, wp_templating_constants(), wp_check_browser_version()
- Use the post type object in get_posts_by_author_sql() and add a post type parameter to count_many_users_posts(); pub_priv_sql_capability filter is considered deprecated
- Validate post status against capabilities in Press This
- Verify certificate matches both the common name and the provided hostname; WP_HTTP_Curl requires CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST be either 2 or false
- When upgrading plugins/themes, if the new destination folder is different from the previous folder, delete the old folder upon upgrade
- XML-RPC add support to wp.getPostFormats to provide a list of the currently supported post formats in addition to the complete list
- XML-RPC allow Pages to have a status of pending
- XML-RPC include the post status in the response for mt.getRecentPostTitles calls
- XML-RPC introduce a special wp_die handler for XMLRPC requests to ensure we send an XML response
