Wordpress 3.2 released - Faster, Lighter and BETTER
Finally something was done to Wordpress loading speeds. I'm using both Blogger and Wordpress blogs, and Wordpress has always been very slow. (Yes, I know that there are plugins that should speed up things, but I like to have less plugins.)
Wordpress 3.2 - Changelog Highlights
- Refreshed Administrative UI - Admin redesign
- New Default Theme "Twenty Eleven" - Uses the latest Theme Features
- Full Screen Editor - Distraction free writing experience
- Extended Admin Bar - More useful links to control the site
- Requirements Changes -
- PHP 5.2.4 or greater (old requirement - since WordPress 2.5 was PHP 4.3 or greater)
- MySQL 5.0.15 or greater (old requirement - since WordPress 2.9 was MySQL 4.1.2 or greater)
- Enhanced Browser Compatibility -
- Drop Internet Explorer 6 support
- Start End-of-life (EOL) cycle for Internet Explorer 7
- Browse Happy notify users of out-of-date browser
- WordPress is Faster and Lighter -
- Faster page loads -- We've gone through the most commonly loaded pages in WP and done improvements to their load time
- Faster Upgrades -- The update system now support incremental upgrades so after 3.2 you'll find upgrading faster than ever
- Optimizations to WP_Filesystem -- Updates over FTP are now much quicker and less error prone
- Stream downloads to the filesystem -- Improves update times and lowers the memory footprint
- Performance improvements for wptexturize()
- Remove PHP4 compatibility including timezone support
- More efficient term intersection queries
- Some optimizations in the HTML sanitizer (kses)
- Speed optimizations for is_serialized_string()
- Cache the Dashboard RSS Widgets HTML output to reduce unnecessary Ajax requests as well as the memory footprint
- And many other improvements and tweaks
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