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Re: WordPress › WordPress 3.2 now available

#11

Post by zapman449 »

devicenull wrote: post #9
sucuri2 wrote: post #5

The only issue now is their PHP 5.2.4 requirement which will keep from 15-20% of the users unable to update it: http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/07/wordpress-3-2-and-php-support...

The only way to get people to bug their hosts about upgrading PHP is to release popular software that requires it.. Without the demand to upgrade to higher versions, no host is going to bother.

My grief with this requirement is CentOS 5 only comes with php 5.1.6 without some hackery of special repos or self-compile... That affects a TON of hosting companies... especially with CentOS 6 still a few days away (which is a different challenge).

Re: WordPress › WordPress 3.2 now available

#13

Post by robryan »

zapman449 wrote: post #11
devicenull wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only way to get people to bug their hosts about upgrading PHP is to release popular software that requires it.. Without the demand to upgrade to higher versions, no host is going to bother.

My grief with this requirement is CentOS 5 only comes with php 5.1.6 without some hackery of special repos or self-compile... That affects a TON of hosting companies... especially with CentOS 6 still a few days away (which is a different challenge).

It was released in 2006, sure some hosting companies want to stay of the bleeding edge for fear of causing problems with the apps customers are running but if they haven't upgraded from that it's just laziness on their part.

Re: WordPress › WordPress 3.2 now available

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Post by Andrex »

Zen Mode is amazing. I still don't like the blue theme (too light IMO), but the new dashboard is pretty great too. Haven't used it enough to tell the speed differences yet, but this seems like a very stable release. Good job WP team and all you contributors.

Re: WordPress › WordPress 3.2 now available

#16

Post by johnny22 »

zapman449 wrote: post #11
devicenull wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only way to get people to bug their hosts about upgrading PHP is to release popular software that requires it.. Without the demand to upgrade to higher versions, no host is going to bother.

My grief with this requirement is CentOS 5 only comes with php 5.1.6 without some hackery of special repos or self-compile... That affects a TON of hosting companies... especially with CentOS 6 still a few days away (which is a different challenge).

i thought most hosting companies who still use centos do so because of cpanel or other control panel software that handles handles php very well itself.

Which ones don't?

Re: WordPress › WordPress 3.2 now available

#17

Post by RyanKearney »

zapman449 wrote: post #11
devicenull wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only way to get people to bug their hosts about upgrading PHP is to release popular software that requires it.. Without the demand to upgrade to higher versions, no host is going to bother.

My grief with this requirement is CentOS 5 only comes with php 5.1.6 without some hackery of special repos or self-compile... That affects a TON of hosting companies... especially with CentOS 6 still a few days away (which is a different challenge).

Considering most hosting companies use cPanel and PHP/Apache updates aren't taken from the operating systems repository, this doesn't matter.

Re: WordPress › WordPress 3.2 now available

#18

Post by ck2 »

I completely do not understand the mysql upgrade requirement.

They are not using any queries that are not supported on mysql 4.1 and for myisam use, 4.1 is faster than all later versions of mysql until version 5.5 (which is not available yet on many control panel based servers like cpanel).

Re: WordPress › WordPress 3.2 now available

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Post by shii »

I've been using QuietWrite[1] for awhile which already has the awesome quiet writing mode as default. Really polished UI. Par excellence webapp, that. One of the best things about it is its ability to publish to your Wordpress blog as well. I recommend anyone who has a Wordpress blog or just wants a no-clutter, awesome, developing writing environment to check it out.

[1]: http://www.quietwrite.com/

Re: WordPress › WordPress 3.2 now available

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Post by dazzer »

ck2 wrote: post #18

I completely do not understand the mysql upgrade requirement. They are not using any queries that are not supported on mysql 4.1 and for myisam use, 4.1 is faster than all later versions of mysql until version 5.5 (which is not available yet on many control panel based servers like cpanel).

Seems to me like an obsolescence strategy.

By declaring right out that it is no longer going to be supported, people will be encouraged to write for the newer databases. Eventually when the standard MySQL version moves up, it won't be stuck in 4.1. Plugins authors will also appreciate that they have been given enough heads-up to update their plugins.

This will also give people time to upgrade their databases if they're managing their own.

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