[WordPress News] WordPress 3.1 Released Candidate 2

WordPress team released WordPress 3.1 RC2 (Release Candidate 2) as a New Year present and it is available for download to all users and developers. RC stands for “Rlease Candidate” which means it is an indication that product is ready for final launch. WordPress team is in no mood of celebrating holidays because on Christmas they released WordPress 3.1 RC1 and on before New Year they released a major security update and those who are unable to update to latest version got hacked and many blogs already hacked due to this upgrade.

According to WordPress team changes made in RC1 are:

• The security fixes included in WordPress 3.0.4
• Fix issues related to handling a static front page
• Fixes and enhancements for the pagination buttons
• Fix searching for partial usernames
• Properly reactivate plugins after editing them
• Always show the current author in the author dropdown when editing a post
• Fixes for attachment taxonomies
• Fix node removal for the admin bar
• Fix the custom post type show_in_menu argument
• Various fixes for right-to-left languages
• and a few dozen more changes

Thinking of giving it a try then download it now but remember that it is not ready to use on live site. You can still use it for testing purposes and if you find some bug, then there are few ways to inform WordPress team:

• Post it to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums
• Report it to the wp-testers mailing list
• Join the development IRC channel and tell us live at irc.freenode.net #wordpress-dev
• File a bug ticket on the WordPress Trac

So, give WordPress 3.1 RC2 a try and do me know your feedback.

Download Link for WordPress 3.1 RC2