History

We’ve been working on a new book about the history of WordPress drawing on dozens of interviews with the original folks involved and extensive research. It’s not ready yet, but for the tenth anniversary of WordPress we’d like to make a chapter available, On forking WordPress, forks in general, early WordPress, and the community, which you can download below in the following formats:

Jazzers and Release Dates

WordPress core developers share a love of jazz music, and all our major releases are named in honor of jazz musicians we personally admire. Here’s a list of releases and the musicians they were named for. You can listen to a Last.fm station of all the musicians we named a release for.

Version Musician Date
5.5 Billy Eckstine ဩဂုတ် 11၊ 2020
5.4 Nat Adderley မတ် 31၊ 2020
5.3 Rahsaan Roland Kirk နိုဝင်ဘာ 12၊ 2019
5.2 Jaco Pastorius မေ 7၊ 2019
5.1 Betty Carter ဖေ‌ဖော်ဝါရီ 21၊ 2019
5.0 Bebo Valdés ဒီဇင်ဘာ 6၊ 2018
4.9 Billy Tipton နိုဝင်ဘာ 15၊ 2017
4.8 Bill Evans ဇွန် 8၊ 2017
4.7 Sarah Vaughan ဒီဇင်ဘာ 6၊ 2016
4.6 Pepper Adams ဩဂုတ် 16၊ 2016
4.5 Coleman Hawkins ဧပြီ 12၊ 2016
4.4 Clifford Brown ဒီဇင်ဘာ 8၊ 2015
4.3 Billie Holiday ဩဂုတ် 18၊ 2015
4.2 Bud Powell ဧပြီ 23၊ 2015
4.1 Dinah Washington ဒီဇင်ဘာ 18၊ 2014
4.0 Benny Goodman စက်တင်ဘာ 4၊ 2014
3.9 Jimmy Smith ဧပြီ 16၊ 2014
3.8 Charlie Parker ဒီဇင်ဘာ 12၊ 2013
3.7 Count Basie အောက်တိုဘာ 24၊ 2013
3.6 Oscar Peterson ဩဂုတ် 1၊ 2013
3.5 Elvin Jones ဒီဇင်ဘာ 11၊ 2012
3.4 Grant Green ဇွန် 13၊ 2012
3.3 Sonny Stitt ဒီဇင်ဘာ 12၊ 2011
3.2 George Gershwin ဇူလိုင် 4၊ 2011
3.1 Django Reinhardt ဖေ‌ဖော်ဝါရီ 23၊ 2011
3.0 Thelonious Monk ဇွန် 17၊ 2010
2.9 Carmen McRae ဒီဇင်ဘာ 18၊ 2009
2.8 Chet Baker ဇွန် 11၊ 2009
2.7 John Coltrane ဒီဇင်ဘာ 10၊ 2008
2.6 McCoy Tyner ဇူလိုင် 15၊ 2008
2.5 Michael Brecker မတ် 29၊ 2008
2.3 Dexter Gordon စက်တင်ဘာ 24၊ 2007
2.2 Stan Getz မေ 16၊ 2007
2.1 Ella Fitzgerald ဇန်နဝါရီ 22၊ 2007
2.0 Duke Ellington ဒီဇင်ဘာ 31၊ 2005
1.5 Billy Strayhorn ဖေ‌ဖော်ဝါရီ 17၊ 2005
1.2 Charles Mingus မေ 22၊ 2004
1.0 Miles Davis ဇန်နဝါရီ 3၊ 2004
.70 No musician chosen. မေ 27၊ 2003