Wednesday, April 13, 2016

WordPress 4.5 "Coleman" now available from Bitnami!


We're happy to announce a new version of Bitnami Wordpress Stack:

WordPress is a popular blogging software and powers more than 10% of all websites globally. Developed by Automattic, WordPress rose to popularity quickly because of it’s up-to-date development framework, extensive feature set, multilingual publishing ability, multi-author support, and thriving community. Thousands of free and commercial themes and plugins are available to extend and personalize WordPress for just about anyone who needs a website.

A few of the major changes in this new version include:
  • Finer points: Customizer improvement
  • Finer points: Visual Editor improvement
  • Finer points: Comment refinement
  • Finer points: Optimization of image generation
  • Developers: Selective refresh
  • 
Developers: Backbone and underscore update

  • Developers: Embed templates 
  • Developers: Term edit page changes 


What's new?
  • Posts: Inline link editing

  • Posts: Additional editor shortcuts
  • 
Comments: Moderate comment screen refresh

  • Comments: Max length for comment form fields
  • 
Comments: Comment error page navigation

  • Appearance: Responsive preview of your site

  • Appearance: Theme logo support
  • 
Appearance: Selective refresh

  • Appearance: Easy of use


Under the hood:
  • Bug fix: Support Windows shares/DFS roots in wp_normalize_path()
  • Bug fix: OPTIONS request to REST API does not return correct Accept header
  • Smart Image resizing
  • JavaScript library updates
  • Script Loader improvements
You can learn more information about this release in the WordPress blog.

With Bitnami, you can deploy a ready-to-run Wordpress Stack with just one click. To get started, choose from our all-in-one free native installers (for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X), virtual machines and Cloud Images for Amazon EC2, Azure, CenturyLink, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud Platform, vCloud Air and 1&1 Cloud Platform.