Upcoming WordPress Milestones

The great thing about using open source software is the fact that it is constantly being tweaked and improved. The WordPress community is no exception. Despite the recent major release of WordPress 2.3, they already have released some information about what is in store for WordPress users in the future.

As usual, Blogging Pro has the latest about upcoming releases and conferences. On the releases side, it looks like we have some good stuff to look forward to:

On the releases side, you will see some updates to WordPress 2.0, 2.3, and a full 2.4 release by the end of this year, or early in the new year.

Releases
WordPress 2.0.12 is listed as three weeks late according to WordPress’ trac system, meaning it should be out any time now. I would guess that it will be released at the same time as Wordpress 2.3.1 which is due November 15th.

WordPress 2.4, which should see some very visible changes to the WordPress administration panel is currently set to be released December 12th of this year, but The Blog Herald has it listed as being released January 15th of 2008, which I think is much more realistic to their development cycle. Either way, it should be interesting.

Then for all those keeping track, we will see a WordPress 2.5 in May, 2008.

It looks like WordPress 2.4 is well underway, and I look forward to an improved administration panel. I’m still holding out hope that they can continue to integrate more plugins into the actual WordPress software.