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Akismet 2.5.1 is now out, with several fixes for 2.5.0 items: Fix a bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. that caused the…

i18ni18n Internationalization, or the act of writing and preparing code to be fully translatable into other languages. Also see localization. Often written with a lowercase i so it is not confused with a lowercase L or the numeral 1. Often an acquired skill.-change: It’s that time again. This keyword must be used on any tickets…

Profiles now shows up-to-date info from the various tracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. installs once again. It won’t be up-to-the-minute, but it will be updating on a somewhat regular basis. Example: https://profiles.wordpress.org/users/nacin #trac, #wporg

Dev Chat is today. BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the…

We migrated all the .org tracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. installs and svn repositories (except WP.org plugins which had been moved previously) to a new server today and upgraded from Trac 0.11 to 0.12. Unfortunately, it didn’t go so well…

As was discussed in the last dev chat I’ll be posting here periodically about dev changes in the Akismet pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are…

Suggest agenda items for the Dec 1 developer chat. 3.0.2 What’s left for 3.1 betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final…

Unexpectedly, Google’s Melange site (the app used to maange GSoC and Code-in) has removed all the mentor information from GSoC. Can anyone willing to mentor on a code-in task or two please give me their google ID in the comments? Also, I’ve been hitting repeated server errors trying to get tasks into the system, so…

WordPress 3.1 uses jQuery 1.4.4, and jQuery UIUI User interface 1.8.6. You should check your plugins to see if anything broke. If you were enqueueing jquery-ui-core and using the “widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on…

The new post format details are now exposed via the XML-RPC APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.: ticket – https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15405 commit – https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16484 In short, there is a new method – wp.getPostFormats – that…