WordPress 2.2 released
WordPress 2.2 has moved from Candidate to Final Release.
One major change is that widgets are now included by default in the core code, rather than being available as a plugin, have apparently been significantly cleaned up, and enabled for the default themes (or vice-versa…).
2.2 doesn’t have the new tagging system, which made a brief appearance - it created issues with, particularly, Ultimate Tag Warrior - reserved for 2.3…
The technical stuff underneath the hood is
* A new set of WordPress-specific XML-RPC APIs that allow for editing pages, setting categories, and much more.
* We now use jQuery for a number of internal functions, and hope to transition all of our JS to use it.
* Comment feeds now support multiple formats, including Atom.
* Our internal mail functions now use phpMailer, which allows for things like SMTP support.
* You can now set database collation and character set in your config file.
* You can also hardcode your site and WP URL in the config file, overriding the values in the DB.
* Finally we’ve increased the inline documentation of a number of functions inside of WP, which should help you navigate those parts of the code.
