Looks like there’s been another public drop of WordPress 2.8.1 labelled Beta 2, as more issues with the 2.8 release are quashed. Here are some of the things that have been fixed in this release:
- Translation of role names fixed
- wp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user specified menu order rather than the page title
- Upload error messages are now correctly reported
- Autosave error experienced by some IE users is fixed
- Styling glitch in the plugin editor fixed
- SSH2 filesystem requirements updated
- Switched back to curl as the default transport
- Updated the translation library to avoid a problem with mbstring.func_overload
There’s a warning on the release post for plugin authors to make sure they test their plugins with this release, so there may be some bits that have changed or been refined in some of the hooks or API that WordPress exposes. So, if you have a plugin that lets you reply to comments, or send out Halloween invitations, then make sure you test it well just to make sure it works fine.
