WordPress 3.4.1 beta版本发布

最近没有留意wordpress的更新情况，昨天有群友问我是否试用了wordpress新版本才晓得在4月5日wordpress 3.4.1版本发布了，博客吧就下载新版本来体验一下，对我来说变化不大，相对来说我还是喜欢wordpress 3.0以前的版本。wordpress此次更新和上次更新的间隔比较长，导致我不怎么注意wordpress更新了。

WordPress官方博客更新原文：

WordPress 3.4 is ready for beta testers!

As always, this is software still in development and we don’t recommend that you run it on a production site — set up a test site just to play with the new version. If you break it (find a bug), please report it, and if you’re a developer, try to help us fix it.

If all goes well, we hope to release WordPress 3.4 in May. The more help we get with testing and fixing bugs, the sooner we will be able to release the final version. If you want to be a beta tester, you should check out the Codex article on how to report bugs.

Here’s some of what’s new:

• Theme Customizer with Previewer
• Flexible Custom Header Sizes
• Selecting Custom Header and Background Images from Media Library
• Better experience searching for and choosing a theme

And some of the under-the-hood changes:

• New XML-RPC API for external and mobile applications
• New API for registering theme support for custom headers and backgrounds
• Performance improvements to WP_Query by splitting the query (Please test!)
• Internationalization improvements (improved performance and locale support)
• Performance and API improvements when working with lists of installed themes
• Support for installing child themes from the WordPress Themes Directory

Remember, if you find something you think is a bug, report it! You can bring it up in the alpha/beta forum, you can email it to the wp-testers list, or if you’ve confirmed that other people are experiencing the same bug, you can report it on the WordPress Core Trac. (We recommend starting in the forum or on the mailing list.)

Theme and plugin authors, if you haven’t been following the 3.4 development cycle, please start now so that you can update your themes and plugins to be compatible with the newest version of WordPress.

Download WordPress 3.4 Beta 1

更新内容：改变了主题预览和修改的方式；可以灵活地自定义header大小；后台主题搜索显示界面进行了优化，提高了用户体验；XML-RPC API更新；wp_query查询性能提升……还有一些其它的更新，有兴趣的看官方原文。