A list or WordPress Versions, from the newest to the oldest, along with the Change Log information on new features and improvements in each version.

Each major version of WordPress is named for a Jazz legend.

• 3.4 – Due Q1 2012
  • 3.3.2 (20 April 2012) – Security and Maintenance Release – 12 Bugs
  • 3.3.1 (4 January 2012) – Security and Maintenance Release – 15 fixes, including vulnerability in 3.3
• 3.3 – (Sonny, 12 Dec 2011, Sonny Stitt) – New drag-and-drop media uploader, overhauled dashboard as well as better tablet touch support
  • 3.2.1 (12 July 2011) – Maintenance Release
• 3.2 (Gershwin, 4 July 2011, George Gershwin) – Faster & Lighter with an overhauled dashboard – Requires PHP 5.2.4 or higher, and MySQL 5.0.15 or higher
  • 3.1.4 (29 June 2011) – Maintenance & Security Release
  • 3.1.3 (25 May 2011) - Security Release
  • 3.1.2 (26 April 2011) – Security Release
  • 3.1.1 (05 April 2011) – Maintenance release – with additional security fixes
• 3.1 (Reinhardt, 23 February 2011, Django Reinhardt) – WordPress is more of a CMS than ever before.
  • 3.0.5 (07 February 2011) – Security Release
  • 3.0.4 (29 December 2010) – Critical Security Update
  • 3.0.3 (08 December 2010) – Security Release
  • 3.0.2 (30 November 2010) – Security Release
  • 3.0.1 (29 July 2010) – Maintenance release – addresses about 50 minor issues
• 3.0 (Thelonious, 18 December 2009, Thelonious Monk) – new default theme called Twenty Ten, merge of MU and WordPress, 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements, bulk updates so you can upgrade 21 plugins at once with a single click
  • 2.9.2 (15 February 2010) – fixed, logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors
  • 2.9.1 (04 January 2010) – scheduled posts and pingbacks fix
• 2.9 (Carmen, 18 December 2009, Carmen McRae) – 500 updates, changes, upgrades and improvements.
  • 2.8.6 (12 November 2009) – Security Release
  • 2.8.5 (20 October 2009) – Hardening Release
  • 2.8.4 (12 August 2009) – Security Release
  • 2.8.3 (03 August 2009) – Security Release
  • 2.8.2 (20 July 2009) – Security Release, XSS vulnerability
  • 2.8.1 (09 July 2009) – Bug fix and security enhancement release
• 2.8 (Baker, 11 June 2009, Chet Baker) – 790 bug fixes, 180 new features, changes, upgrades and improvements. You’ll notice is that visually 2.8 feels a lot like 2.7, just with some minor tweaks here and there. However once you’ll dig in you’ll begin to appreciate the changes.
  • 2.7.1 (10 February 2009) – Fixes 68 tickets
• 2.7 (Coltrane, 11 December 2008, John Coltrane) – Complete overhaul of the Administration Interface
  • 2.6.2 (08 September 2008) – Bug & Security Fixes (Primarily SQL Column Truncation)
  • 2.6.1 (15 August 2008 – Maintenance Release) – Bug Fixes
• 2.6 (Tyner, 15 July 2008, McCoy Tyner)
  • 2.5.1 (25 April 2008) – Bug & Security Fixes
• 2.5 (Brecker, 29 March 2008, Michael Brecker) – Complete overhaul of the Administration Interface
• 2.4 – Skipped
  • 2.3.3
  • 2.3.2
  • 2.3.1
• 2.3 (Dexter, 24 September 2007, Dexter Gordon)
  • 2.2.3
  • 2.2.2
  • 2.2.1
• 2.2 (Getz, 16 May 2007, Stan Getz)
  • 2.1.3
  • 2.1.2
  • 2.1.1
• 2.1 (Ella, 22 January 2007, Ella Fitzgerald)
  • 2.0.9
  • 2.0.8
  • 2.0.7
  • 2.0.6
  • 2.0.5 (Ronan)
  • 2.0.4
  • 2.0.3
  • 2.0.2
  • 2.0.1
• 2.0 (Duke, Dec 2005, Duke Ellington)
• 1.6
  • 1.5.2
  • • 1.5.1.3
    • 1.5.1.2
  • 1.5.1
• 1.5 (Strayhorn, mid Feb 2005, after Billy Strayhorn)
• 1.4
• 1.3
• 1.2 (Mingus after Charles Mingus)
  • 1.0.2 (Blakey)
  • 1.0.1 (Miles)
• 1.0  (Platinum)
  • 0.72
    • 0.711
  • 0.71 (Gold)
• 0.7

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