Wordpress 2.9 is scheduled to be launched for public on October 30, there’s so many features added in this version one of the best is rel=canonical for singular pages with this our Wordpress will be SEO optimized by default (without the need of plugin), all the features set will be make Wordpress a better blogging platform as it used to be.

And here are Wordpress 2.9 complete features:

* Trash status for posts, pages, comments and attachments (includes restore and permanent delete)
* Add support for ‘include’ and ‘exclude’ to (Gallery Shortcode)
* Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client
* Add support for sticky posts to the WXR exporter and importer
* rel=canonical for singular pages
* Scroll back to the same location after saving a file in the Plugin and Theme editors
* Correct comments and remove unnecessary echos from the default themes sidebar templete file
* Enable the APP (Atom) attachment file download to work correctly
* Support location of category templates based on category-slug as well as category-id (Ticket 10614)
* Support location of tag templates based on tag-id as well as tag-slug (Ticket 10868)
* Set “Allow my blog to appear in search engines” to checked in installation
* Don’t offer to make a category its own parent
* Remove Sphere from search list
* Minify admin CSS
* Show correct max upload filesize error message
* Add rel attribute to next/previous post links
* Make the default and classic themes comment textareas valid XHTML
* Clean up .button and .button[disabled] CSS classes, add spinner and gray-out buttons after clicking Publish or Update post
* Fix race condition with autosave when clicking Publish immediately after entering post title
* Add Comments for Pages in the WordPress Default theme
* Define $content_width for Kubrick
* Better feedback on publishing of future posts and pages
* Display comments in descending date order, consistently
* Add means of automatically repairing tables
* Fix Press This bookmarklet for Safari 4
* Give plugins and themes simple control over the text displayed at the end of an autogenerated Excerpt
* Don’t show “Change Permalinks” button when editing the page set as “Front page”
* Image editing
* Retire BunnyTags importer
* Retire Jerome’s keywords importer
* Explain that the permalink is temporary for autosave generated permalinks
* Update SimplePie to 1.2
* Press This fixes
* Eliminate the redundant and confusing comment threading depth of 1

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