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Wordpress finally reported that exciting point in WordPress development where the dev team feels like version 2.9 is complete and ready for the world. If you’ve been waiting for your moment to pitch in, it’s now. First we need tech savvy testers to upgrade their blogs and kick the tires, make sure everything is rolling like you expect it to.

Here’s a list of all the fun and geeky new stuff in 2.9 to try out. Second, and more importantly, we need everyone to test out their plugin compatibility. If you’re a user of plugins, there’s a groovy new compatibility feature on the plugin directory where you can vote on whether a plugin is compatible with a version or not and it’ll get registered in the new plugin compatibility checker.

This is as a replacement to the old wiki-based lists we’d do before. To see it in action check out this Akismet plugin page, as you can see 14 people have already registered that it’s compatible with 2.9. If you’re a plugin author, of course you should update your “Tested up to:” in the readme.txt for your plugin.

If all goes according to plan, WordPress 2.9 will be out before the end of the week. You can download the release candidate here. For more details on the changes since Beta please review the revision log on Trac, and happy testing!

You can visit Wordpress 2.9 Release Candiate 1 by visiting http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.9 and see all the new futures, you will love it. However some of the futures follow. If you visit release page you will be able to see open and close tickets. If you just want to dowload please visit http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/2-9-rc1/ for the latest version now.

User Features or Wordpress 2.9 Release Candidate 1

• Trash status for posts, pages, comments and attachments (includes restore and permanent delete)
• Add support for 'include' and 'exclude' to [gallery]
• Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client
• Add support for sticky posts to the WXR exporter and importer
• 'rel=canonical' for singular pages
• Scroll back to the same location after saving a file in the Plugin and Theme editors
• Correct comments and remove unnecessary echos from the default themes sidebar template file
• Enable the APP (Atom) attachment file download to work correctly
• Support location of category templates based on 'category-slug' as well as 'category-id'
• Support location of tag templates based on 'tag-id' as well as 'tag-slug' 
• Support location of tag templates  based on 'page-slug' and 'page-id'
• Set "Allow my blog to appear in search engines" to checked in installation
• Don't offer to make a category its own parent
• Remove Sphere from search list
• Minify admin CSS
• Show correct max upload filesize error message
• Add 'rel' attribute to next previous post links
• Make the default and classic themes comment textareas valid XHTML
• Clean up '.button' and '.button[disabled]' CSS classes, add 'spinner' and 'gray-out' buttons after clicking Publish or Update post
• Fix race condition with autosave when clicking Publish immediately after entering post title
• Add Comments for Pages in the WordPress Default theme
• Define '$content_width' for Kubrick
• Better feedback on publishing of future posts and pages
• Display comments in descending date order, consistently
• Add means of automatically repairing tables
• Fix Press This bookmarklet for Safari 4
• Give plugins and themes simple control over the text displayed at the end of an autogenerated excerpt
• Don't show "Change Permalinks" button when editing the page set as "Front page"
• Image editing
• Retire BunnyTags importer
• Retire Jerome's keywords importer
• Explain that the permalink is temporary for autosave generated permalinks
• Update SimplePie to 1.2