WordPress 2.8.1 Beta 1 was Released

By Ezra On July 10, 2009 Under WordPress

A lot of people had faced a couple of problems and issues regarding the version 2.8 in WordPress, more likely to be in the plugins wherein after installing and activating the plugin – you’ll be prompted with a note “the plugin does not have a valid header.” However if you are new here, I posted a tutorial on how to fix this minor problem awhile ago.

Anyway, I see there’s a new update called 2.8.1 Beta and it’s available now. I haven’t updated yet as I need to back-up first before changing anything else.

Here are some of the issues that are fixed in beta 1.

Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won’t have to change.
Dashboard memory usage is reduced. Some people were running out of memory when loading the dashboard, resulting in an incomplete page.
The automatic upgrade no longer accidentally deletes files when cleaning up from a failed upgrade.
A problem where the rich text editor wasn’t being loaded due to compression issues has been worked around.
Extra security has been put in place to better protect you from plugins that do not do explicit permission checks.

Whilst checking out the WordPress.Org Blog, I dunno if it’s only me or whatever, but I did saw a ‘smiley’ just at the upper right side of the categories.