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As posted on Wordpress’ Development blog, Wordpress 2.3 Beta 1 is now available.

As announced:

The past 3 months we’ve been working feverishly on the next version of WordPress, 2.3. Today we’re releasing the first beta of 2.3 and we’re hoping the more adventurous and savvy among you will help us test it.

Some of the features of 2.3 include plugin and core update notification, built-in tags support, faster javascript, and SEO-friendly URL redirection.

However all of the new functionality is still very rough, so only test the beta if you are comfortable troubleshooting PHP issues, filing tickets, and backing up your data religiously. If you’re interested you can join the wp-testers mailing list and download the beta here.

I may end up installing it here, not sure yet

phpMyAdmin released 2.11.0 today, I’d advise everyone to upgrade. Here is their announcement.

The phpMyAdmin Project is proud to announce the immediate availability
of phpMyAdmin 2.11.0, which will probably be the last series supporting
PHP 4.

This version supports creating VIEWs from query results
and can manage triggers, procedures and functions. It also supports
MySQL 5.0.37 query profiling and has an improved interface for servers
hosting thousands of databases and tables.

phpMyAdmin is a web administration tool for MySQL databases, intended to
handle a whole database server as well as a single database. Over the
years, it has become the most popular Web GUI for MySQL.

Improvements
————

+ [import] support handling of DELIMITER to mimic mysql CLI,
thanks to fb1
+ improved PHP 6 compatibility
+ [core] added PMA_fatalError() and made use of it
+ [doc] changed all documentation in config.inc.php
to phpDocumentor style
+ [data] support for CREATE VIEW from query results
+ [gui] dropped css/ folder and moved into root of PMA
+ [l10n] new: Sinhala, Macedonian
+ [export] YAML export (see yaml.org), thanks to Bryce Thornton
+ [upload] moved file upload functionality into own class
+ [upload] make use of cfg['TempDir'] for file uploads
+ [server] improved display of binary logs
+ [data] better error handling in tbl_create.php
+ [routines] from Patch #1649881, thanks to Mike Beck
+ [querywindow] store sql history in session
+ [querywindow] sql history now without db too
+ [querywindow] tweaks in sql history view
+ [export] Native Excel (Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer) improvements,
thanks to Christian Schmidt
+ [doc] requirement of mcrypt on 64-bit, thanks to Isaac Bennetch
+ RFE #1435922 [gui] navigation frame shows listing of databases
when none selected
+ [data] support BIT datatype (under mysqli),
thanks to Christian Schmidt
+ [display] automatic confirmation for sort by key,
thanks to Juergen Wind
+ [data] can now choose the number of insert rows
+ RFE #1704779 [gui] link documentation from login page
+ RFE #1513345 [setup] check control user connection during setup
+ [structure] TRIGGERS: display/edit/drop/SQL export
+ [browse] store browse state in session per query
+ [gui] Insert/Edit: no longer display the Go button each 15 lines
but just at the end of a row
+ [gui] Query window: use verbose server name if any
+ [auth] patch #1712514 specify host for single signon,
thanks to Thierry
+ [gui] Navigator for the db list in the navigation panel
+ [gui] Navigator for the table list in the content panel
+ [display] Support for MySQL 5.0.37 profiling
+ RFE #1743983 [gui] Replace max_characters by a configurable param:
cfg['MaxCharactersInDisplayedSQL']
+ [display] patch #1749705, Allow multibyte characters in number
formatting, thanks to garas
+ [privileges] Support password hashing on the Edit Privileges
interface
+ [gui] Export: Select All/Unselect All over the choices,
thanks to Florian Schmitz

www.phpmyadmin.net

Today, I bring you one of my new fav. songs by Disturbed. It’s actually a rare one It’s called “Hell”, and really a kickass song.

Burning now I bring you hell
Oh, burning now I bring you hell

Leave me tonight, when the warnings said leave a shudder upon you
Running from all that you’ve feared in your life
Soul of the night, will a son mislead paint a horror upon you
Marking the moment, displaying in my ghost of a life
That I can’t condone the way you left me out in the open
To leave me to die
So how can I, forget the way you led me through the path into heaven
To leave me behind

Now I can’t stay behind
Save me, from wreaking my vengeance upon you
To killing more than I can tell
Burning now I bring you hell
Oh, burning now I bring you hell

Free me tonight, lest the animal caged free a terror upon you
Caught in the moment, engaging in my bloodlust tonight,
Now I can’t control my venom’s flow
Get back from me demon, or be exorcised

Now I can’t stay behind
Save me, from wreaking my vengeance upon you,
To killing more than I can tell
Burning now I bring you hell

All my emotion and all my integrity
All that you’ve taken from me
All my emotion and all my integrity
All that you’ve taken from me

Now I can’t stay behind
Save me, from wreaking my vengeance upon you
To killing more than I can tell
Soul of the night, I know now I can’t stay behind
Save me, from wreaking my vengeance upon you
To killing more than I can tell
Burning now I bring you hell
Oh, burning now I bring you hell
Oh, burning now I bring you hell

\m/ ( o_0 ) \m/

Wordpress 2.2.2 and 2.0.11 were released a couple hours ago. These releases are security fixes. I’ve already upgraded this blog to 2.2.2.

Wordpress announcement:

Today we have two security-related releases available for both users of our main 2.2 branch and the legacy 2.0 branch. As these releases include only security and minor bugfixes they should not cause any plugin or theme compatibility issues, so you have no good excuse not to upgrade.

On our Trac you can see the bugs closed for 2.2.2 and 2.0.11 to get more details about the problems fixed. With a little more Trac magic you can see all the changed files for 2.2.2 or 2.0.11.

Our download page is always the best place to get the latest release, and our legacy page now has the latest in the 2.0 branch.

As always, we have upgrade instructions available and an extended upgrade guide.

Upgrade NOW!