I have been playing around with the idea of setting up my partners and I have been working on lately but keep talking myself out of it. This morning I found out that MU had just been released in v2.6 beta 1. They went ahead and caught the version numbers up with the basic WordPress build to avoid confusion.
If you are not familiar with WordPress MU, it’s basically a multi-user version of WordPress with a few differences. The good part about MU is that while it’ a different solution altogether, it still allows you to use your basic templates and plugins. The release candidate is now online. Here’s the forum thread on it. Grab the zip file to test!
WordPress MU 2.6 beta 1 is now available. WordPress 2.6 is due for release shortly and it’s already on it’s third beta so it’s times for WordPress MU to be updated.
This release has many new features as well as a few security fixes. In his beta 1, beta 2 and beta 3 posts Ryan listed some of the main features, including post revisioning, gears support for faster loading, theme previews, better SSL support and much much more.
WordPress MU specific changes include:
- The version number is being bumped to 2.6 rather than 1.6 because of version confusion. Minor MU versions will probably append a letter to the version.
- Signup page now has a nonce to help defeat spammers.
- Plugins in wp-content/plugins/ are version checked like in WordPress. mu-plugins isn’t covered just yet.
- Major object cache changes.
- And many more bug fixes. Check the timeline for a list of changes.
Download wordpress-mu-2.6-beta1.zip
Very interesting.