Überhaupt wurde vor allem im BackEnd Bereich gearbeitet. Das ganze fühlt sich schneller und schlanker an. Die Liste der Neuerungen ist lang, anbei ein Auszug aus den Highlights:
- Refreshed Administative UI – Admin redesign
- New Default Theme „Twenty Eleven“ – Uses the latest Theme Features
- Full Screen Editor – Distraction free writing experience
- Extended Admin Bar – More useful links to control the site
- Requirements Changes –
- PHP 5.2.4 or greater (old requirement – since WordPress 2.5 was PHP 4.3 or greater)
- MySQL 5.0.15 or greater (old requirement – since WordPress 2.9 was MySQL 4.1.2 or greater)
- Enhanced Browser Compatibility –
- Drop Internet Explorer 6 support
- Start End-of-life (EOL) cycle for Internet Explorer 7
- Browse Happy notify users of out-of-date browser
WordPress is Faster and Lighter –
- Faster page loads — We’ve gone through the most commonly loaded pages in WP and done improvements to their load time
- Faster Upgrades — The update system now support incremental upgrades so after 3.2 you’ll find upgrading faster than ever
- Optimizations to WP_Filesystem — Updates over FTP are now much quicker and less error prone
- Stream downloads to the filesystem — Improves update times and lowers the memory footprint
- Performance improvements for wptexturize()
- Remove PHP4 compatibility including timezone support
- More efficient term intersection queries
- Some optimizations in the HTML sanitizer (kses)
- Speed optimizations for is_serialized_string()
- Cache the Dashboard RSS Widgets HTML output to reduce unnecessary Ajax requests as well as the memory footprint
- And many other improvements and tweaks
