The WordPress team has grown!
We now have Donncha O’Caoimh and Mike Tremoulet on board. More coming soon.

The first (non-beta) version of WordPress has been released! The official announcement is on the WordPress Development blog.

* Texturize – So good it’ll make your quotes curl.
* WordPress Links – A link manager with everything you’d expect, from Weblogs.com support to a handy bookmarklet. Manage as many blogrolls as you like, and have complete control over their display.
* XHTML 1.1 – WordPress is compliant with XHTML standards up to 1.1, though by default it sends a 1.0 document type to avoid compatibility issues.
* Highly Intelligent Line Breaks – Occasionally called “nl2br on steroids,” this brand new function adds line breaks except where there is already a block level tag or another line break.
* New Administration Interface – We’ve made it as simple as possible, and no more. Everything has been restructured from the ground up in a fully compliant XHTML/CSS interface.
* Manual Excerpts – This allows you to hand craft summaries of your posts to appear in your RSS feed and other places.
* New Default Templates – Again we’ve streamlined theses with the latest in simple, easy-to-understand standard XHTML and CSS. And not a CSS hack in sight.
* Plus numerous behind the scenes code clean-ups, making this release faster and more stable than ever.

Check the WordPress Download Page to get it.

WordPress beta has been released. Check it out and give us feedback on the support forum.

Matt and I have been working flat out on WordPress the last couple of days, Matt especially. I think we are making good progress and should soon be ready for an alpha release!

Wow! Michel Valdrighi has announced that WordPress will be the official replacement for / continuation of B2.

“Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little are leading the new WordPress branch of b2, that is going to become the new official branch once they get a release out.”

Too busy working on WordPress and helping out Paul to blog in time for yesterday.