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Textpattern's ongoing development
Now we’ve (finally) shipped Textpattern 4.9.0, and I hope it serves everybody well, the aim is to continue to push minor changes to the branch to fix bugs/features and support PHP/MySQL advancements, but this officially ends the Textpattern 4.x series.
It’s been at level 4 for around 20 years, and it’s time to move things on to bigger and brighter things. To build on the foundations we’ve laid, with the principles and ideals of its creator Dean Allen still beating at its heart, and push our favourite CMS into greater pastures. We’ve already made great strides towards Textpattern 5.0.0 in the custom-fields branch and stuff is evolving there at pace. I don’t think it’s too boastful to say that the work we’ve put in so far has not been attempted by anyone in any major CMS, and is the cornerstone of what will become insanely powerful yet familiar to everyone who has grown to love the platform, as well as a welcoming environment to new people who want something blazingly fast, nimble and flexible to power their online presence.
We still have a lot of consolidation to do in the wake of 4.9.0: docs, feature articles, server restructuring, translation, evangelism (which we would please encourage each and every one of you to assist by making as much positive noise as you can about the CMS), and so forth. But we will soon be switching the development branches so that 5.0.0 takes centre stage and 4.9.x is kept up-to-date for support purposes only.
I have every confidence in the team of amazing volunteers, hobbyists, testers, coders, administrators, designers, and lovers of the written word that continue to work with, on and around this amazing project. Thank you so much for sticking with it, or even finding us and staying for the ride. Textpattern means so much to me – its community and spirit especially – and I’m proud of what we’ve achieved and what we can achieve going forward.
For those that celebrate this time of year, wherever you are in the world, I hope you have a fantastic break and we’ll be back in the new year to forge ahead with the next phase in development.
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
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Re: Textpattern's ongoing development
Have a nice year-end holiday, Stef, and thank you for the ongoing work on that little CMS that does big.
Onwards to the next year!
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