Last night I upgraded this blog to the shiny new WordPress 2.1 beta 2. In addition to finding a couple of plugins no longer working, I found something that's a real kick in the teeth. Remember my sticky posts test from just a few weeks ago? Yeah, that doesn't work in WP2.1. In fact, it fails pretty spectacularly.

Fuckbuckets. Looking on the bright side, at least I never got around to the exhaustive explanation on how to implement it. That would really bring me down. And besides… maybe this is a minor glitch that can still be fixed before 2.1 final ships.

2.1 looks likes it's going to be pretty cool. My favorite enhancements are the ability to have draft and private pages and the Word-style autosave draft function. There's also a pretty substantial overhaul to the bookmark system, including new template tags that make life easier for designer types.

However, the creamy goodness comes with a catch. 2.1 requires a newer version of MySQL than previous versions. 2.0.x and lower require at least 3.23.23, where 2.1 now requires at least 4.0. For those of you unable to hop on the 2.1 bandwagon until your webhost makes some upgrades, the WP dev team has committed to supporting WP 2.0.x for the next several years.

I'm usually not so gung ho about new versions of WP that I'll install a beta on this blog, but 2.1 is pretty cool. And I'm glad I installed it here. I found a bug last night. I always feel pretty cool when I can contribute, rather than just nod my head and say "Yeah, looks pretty good."