WordPress 3.6 Has Launced Today - See All The Features!

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WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg today announced the release of the latest version, which includes “bullet-proof” autosave and post locking, a revamped revision browser, native support for audio and video embeds and improved integration with Spotify, Rdio and SoundCloud. WordPress 3.6 is available to download from WordPress.org

Dubbed “Oscar” in honor of Canadian jazz pianist and composer Oscar Peterson, WordPress 3.6 features more than just a new theme and improved revisions. Oscar includes better autosave and post locking, native support for audio and video embeds via an HTML5 media player, as well as improved integrations with Spotify, Rdio, and SoundCloud.

There are a number of user features:

• The new Twenty Thirteen theme, inspired by modern art, puts focus on your content with a colorful, single-column design made for media-rich blogging.


• Revamped revisions save every change and the new interface allows you to scroll easily through changes to see line-by-line who changed what and when.


• Post locking and augmented autosave will be a boon for sites where more than a single author is working on a post. Each author now has their own autosave stream, which stores things locally as well as on the server (so much harder to lose something) and there’s an interface for taking over editing of a post, as demonstrated beautifully by our bearded buddies in the video above.


• Built-in HTML5 media player for native audio and video embeds with no reliance on external services.


• The menu editor is now much easier to understand and use.

Developer features include:

• A new audio/video API provides access to metadata like ID3 tags.


• You can now choose HTML5 markup for things like comment and search forms, and comment lists.


• Better filters for how revisions work, so you can store a different amount of history for different post types.


• Tons more listed on the Codex, and of course you can always browse the over 700 closed tickets.

New features aside, I recommend upgrading to the latest version from a security standpoint alone. With WordPress powering almost one-fifth of the Web, it’s a very big target for attackers.

Have you downloaded WordPress 3.6? What do you think? Tell me in the comments below...