WordPress 2.8 release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker.

According to Wiki “Baker was born and raised in a musical household in Yale, Oklahoma; his father was a professional guitar player. Baker began his musical career singing in a church choir. His father introduced him to brass instruments with a trombone, which was replaced with a trumpet when the trombone proved too large for him.

Baker received some musical education at Glendale Junior High School, but left school at age 16 in 1946 to join the United States Army. He was posted to Berlin where he joined the 298th Army band. Leaving the army in 1948, he studied theory and harmony at El Camino College in Los Angeles. He dropped out in his second year, and re-enlisted in the army in 1950. Baker once again obtained a discharge from the army to pursue a career as a professional musician. Baker became a member of the Sixth Army Band at the Presidio in San Francisco, but was soon spending time in San Francisco jazz clubs such as Bop City and the Black Hawk.”

Why WordPress 2.8 ?

WordPress 2.8 released with lot of excited features which I have noticed.

WP 2.8 has new theme installer.This feature is like single click plugin installers.Now we can install new themes directly from control panel.

Another is unique Widget dashboard with best graphics and manager.

But more powerful feature is its speed.Follow the link to download WordPress 2.8 or update 2.8 from your control panel.

WordPress 2.8 is ready to release but it will release on 10 June, Wednesday.
Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of WordPress 2.8 is now available for downloads.
If you are interested in testing out the release candidate or just want to try out WordPress 2.8 before it is finally released, you can download it from here, you can view the complete changelog to see the changes made since Beta 2, don’t forget to take a look at the new features in WordPress 2.8.