Title: 2009 – WordPress News --- * ## 󠀁[WordPress 2.9.1 Release Candidate 1](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-1-release-candidate-1/)󠁿 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/news/category/development/), [Releases](https://wordpress.org/news/category/releases/) * December 29, 2009 * Thanks to everyone who tested 2.9.1 Beta 1.  We’re following that up with Release Candidate 1.  RC1 contains a few more fixes, bringing the number of fixed tickets up to 23.  If you are already running Beta 1, visit Tools->Upgrade in your blog’s admin to get RC1.  You can also  download the RC1 package and… * [Read Post](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-1-release-candidate-1/) * ## 󠀁[Setting Scope](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/12/setting-scope/)󠁿 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/news/category/development/) * December 25, 2009 * Merry Christmas! One of the things that was discussed at the core commit team meetup was release scope (and scope creep). Now that 2.9 is out and it’s time to start thinking about 3.0, we think it would be appropriate to stop and take a breath before diving in, and make a plan in advance.… * [Read Post](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/12/setting-scope/) * ## 󠀁[WordPress 2.9.1 Beta 1](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-1-beta-1/)󠁿 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/news/category/development/), [Releases](https://wordpress.org/news/category/releases/) * December 23, 2009 * Unfortunately, the recent 2.9 release triggered a bug in certain versions of PHP’s curl extension.  With these versions of curl, scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly.  To fix this problem as well as a handful of other, lesser issues, we are quickly releasing 2.9.1, the first maintenance release of the 2.9 line.  Help… * [Read Post](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-1-beta-1/) * ## 󠀁[WordPress 2.9, oh so fine](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/12/wordpress-2-9/)󠁿 * [Releases](https://wordpress.org/news/category/releases/) * December 19, 2009 * I want to make you mine, all the time… oh wait. Hello. I’m here on behalf of the entire WordPress development team and community to announce the immediate availability of WordPress version 2.9 “Carmen” named in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae (whom we’ve added to our Last.fm WP release station). You can upgrade… * [Read Post](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/12/wordpress-2-9/) * ## 󠀁[2010: A Theme Odyssey](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/12/2010-a-theme-odyssey/)󠁿 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/news/category/development/) * December 18, 2009 * After the video from the core team meetup was posted, the topic that seemed to get the most attention on Twitter and various community sites was Matt’s announcement that there would be a new default theme in 2010, so I thought I’d start with that as the first of the meetup summaries. When Kubrick was… * [Read Post](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/12/2010-a-theme-odyssey/) * ## 󠀁[2.9 Release Candidate 1](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/12/2-9-rc1/)󠁿 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/news/category/development/), [Releases](https://wordpress.org/news/category/releases/) * December 16, 2009 * We’re at that exciting point in WordPress development where the dev team feels like version 2.9 is complete and ready for the world. If you’ve been waiting for your moment to pitch in, it’s now. First we need tech savvy testers to upgrade their blogs and kick the tires, make sure everything is rolling like… * [Read Post](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/12/2-9-rc1/) * ## 󠀁[Core Team Meetup Results](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/12/core-team-meetup-results/)󠁿 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/news/category/development/) * December 14, 2009 * To get started, here’s a short video from the meetup discussing some of the topics and 2.9. In the opening pan, you’ll see (L-R) Andrew Ozz, Mark Jaquith, Jane Wells, Peter Westwood, and Ryan Boren, followed by Matt Mullenweg as the first person talking. Tip: go full-screen in HD to feel like you were there.… * [Read Post](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/12/core-team-meetup-results/) * ## 󠀁[Canonical Plugins (Say What?)](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/12/canonical-plugins/)󠁿 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/news/category/development/) * December 8, 2009 * There have been a lot of references to “canonical plugins” over the past year, especially at WordCamps by Matt, but we haven’t really posted anything official about the idea, nor have we really made much progress beyond discussions about how awesome it would be to have canonical plugins and how good it would be for… * [Read Post](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/12/canonical-plugins/) * ## 󠀁[A Brief Intermission](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/12/intermission/)󠁿 * [General](https://wordpress.org/news/category/general/) * December 6, 2009 * Just a heads up that Trac commits will be pretty low over the next couple of days, as all the core committers are in Orlando: Matt, Ryan, Andrew, Peter and Mark. We all came for WordCamp Orlando (fun!) and are staying a couple of extra days to discuss the vision for WordPress in the coming… * [Read Post](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/12/intermission/) * ## 󠀁[WordPress 2.9 Beta 2](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-beta-2/)󠁿 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/news/category/development/), [Releases](https://wordpress.org/news/category/releases/) * December 2, 2009 * Version beta-2 of WordPress 2.9 is ready for your testing pleasure. You can download it or use the WordPress Beta Tester plugin and auto-upgrade a test installation. See all changes since beta 1. * [Read Post](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-beta-2/) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/page/3/?output_format=md)… [6](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/page/6/?output_format=md) [Older Posts](https://wordpress.org/news/2009/page/2/?output_format=md)