Wordpress 3.4

It's out, and featuring a number of notable improvements.
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Highlights

- Enhanced theme control
Customize theme options before activating a new theme using Theme Customizer
Use Theme Previewer to customize current theme without changing the front-end design

- Custom Headers
Improved Custom Headers with flexible sizes
Selecting Custom Header Images and Custom Background Images from Media Library Screen

- Media improvements
Support HTML in image captions

- Under the Hood improvements
Improvements in WordPress internationalization and localization (more info)
Different split in translation POT files for faster translations
Codex XML-RPC information update accessed via XML-RPC_WordPress_API
WP_Query improvements


User Features

- General
Properly reflect the language on RSS feeds
Add support for DFW for all instances of the editor
Update license.txt to include 'How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs' at the request of the FSF http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt

- Dashboard
Dashboard Widgets are available for translation
Help Tabs improvements
Remove Recently Updated from Plugins widget
Add a link to the Customizer from the Admin Bar appearance menu
Improve the Recent Comments dashboard widget performance on sites with large amounts of comments

- Posts
Add new comment from post edit screen
Display menu_order value in Quick Edit for non-hierarchical post types
Change 'Post Format' bulk/quick edit label to 'Format'

- Media
HTML support has been added to image caption field
Add Twitter.com as an oEmbed providers

- Links
Default Links are now available for translation

- Comments
Remove "Approve" bulk action when viewing spam comments as it isn't shown in the row actions

- Appearance
Update the Theme Customizer in Twenty Ten and Twenty Eleven themes
Faster theme searching
Post formats should show_in_nav_menus when the current theme supports them
Infinite scroll for themes.php and theme-install.php. Bump per page limit for themes.php to 999
Add Sort by, and Number of Links to show, to the Links widget
Introduce new registration methods for custom headers and custom backgrounds
Default to keyword searches for the theme installer
Contextual help updates
Update install screens to use the new stars

- Plugins
Clean up the Plugin installer screenshots page; adds CSS resize support to the images to prevent them requiring scrolling and falling below the FYI box
Default to keyword searches for the plugin installer
Update install screens to use the new stars

- Tools
Bump WXR_VERSION because of plugins trac 501867 / r19858 which affects the regex based importer
Update contextual help

- Users
After adding a user, take them back to users.php with an 'Edit user' link in the message
Correct how "Display name publicly as" works when other name fields change

- Settings
Update color scheme definition for gray admin theme
Use blue arrows for blue admin's screen options and help tabs; adjust baseline to be more compatible with Firefox
Timezone and start of week can now be specify through translated strings (rather than PHP)

- Install Process
Don't allow empty database prefix for multisite
Issue an error during the WordPress install process if wp-config.php is configured with an empty database table prefix, which is not supported
Remove references to specific search engines

- Multisite
Better checking for values for multisite upload limit
Only allow _multisite_ super admins to demote themselves on a site
Create a network/about.php page and leverage it, to prevent the dashboard from switching to the blog admin
Add an "Edit Site" submenu to the admin bar site menu when a super admin visits a blog dashboard
Autocomplete for add-user screens
Do not save the last visited tab on the multisite Network Themes page and Site Themes tab
Make 'Network Activate' a bulk action on network/plugins.php
Increase default upload space for sites on a network from 10M to 100M
Clean up plugins.php with regards to recently edited files, deactivations, and the network admin

- Development, Themes, Plugins
Exhaustive list in the 3.4 page on codex

Thanks for the info. Just what I wanted to do today - update my blog.

I just updated mine today.

Thanks for the listing of the features. Most helpful.

Blessings,
AS

I just updated mine this morning. Thanks for all the information on what's new!

Judge Dredd said:

Thanks for the info. Just what I wanted to do today - update my blog.

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Upgraded a Wordpress site today... Wordpress Core, Themes, and a dozen addons. Took 3 minutes.

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I screwed up my update failed automatic update. Going to do a clean install again, saved all major pages and stuff I had. Wordpress though is a very good piece of kit, very easy to install plugins and stuff.

Roddy15 said:

I screwed up my update failed automatic update. Going to do a clean install again, saved all major pages and stuff I had. Wordpress though is a very good piece of kit, very easy to install plugins and stuff.

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You don't have to do a fresh re-install.

If you're visiting your blog and it says it's in maintenance mode.

look for a file called .maintenance, then delete it.

I did all that, I'm getting a php error and it started before the update finished. I did a manual update after that too and it didn't make any difference, just came up with a different error.

Updated my blogs this last week, I do love the built in update feature with wordpress

just update it yesterday, fast and no problem at all,
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