We’ve been working on a new book about the history of WordPress drawing on dozens of interviews with the original folks involved and extensive research. It’s not ready yet, but for the tenth anniversary of WordPress we’d like to make a chapter available, On forking WordPress, forks in general, early WordPress, and the community, which you can download below in the following formats:
Jazzers and Release Dates
WordPress core developers share a love of jazz music, and all our major releases are named in honor of jazz musicians we personally admire. Here’s a list of releases and the musicians they were named for. You can listen to a Last.fm station of all the musicians we named a release for.
| Version | Musician | Date |
|---|---|---|
| .70 | No musician chosen. | maijs 27, 2003 |
| 1.0 | Miles Davis | janvāris 3, 2004 |
| 1.2 | Charles Mingus | maijs 22, 2004 |
| 1.5 | Billy Strayhorn | februāris 17, 2005 |
| 2.0 | Duke Ellington | decembris 31, 2005 |
| 2.1 | Ella Fitzgerald | janvāris 22, 2007 |
| 2.2 | Stan Getz | maijs 16, 2007 |
| 2.3 | Dexter Gordon | septembris 24, 2007 |
| 2.5 | Michael Brecker | marts 29, 2008 |
| 2.6 | McCoy Tyner | jūlijs 15, 2008 |
| 2.7 | John Coltrane | decembris 10, 2008 |
| 2.8 | Chet Baker | jūnijs 11, 2009 |
| 2.9 | Carmen McRae | decembris 18, 2009 |
| 3.0 | Thelonious Monk | jūnijs 17, 2010 |
| 3.1 | Django Reinhardt | februāris 23, 2011 |
| 3.2 | George Gershwin | jūlijs 4, 2011 |
| 3.3 | Sonny Stitt | decembris 12, 2011 |
| 3.4 | Grant Green | jūnijs 13, 2012 |
| 3.5 | Elvin Jones | decembris 11, 2012 |
| 3.6 | Oscar Peterson | augusts 1, 2013 |
| 3.7 | Count Basie | oktobris 24, 2013 |
| 3.8 | Charlie Parker | decembris 12, 2013 |
| 3.9 | Jimmy Smith | aprīlis 16, 2014 |
| 4.0 | Benny Goodman | septembris 4, 2014 |
| 4.1 | Dinah Washington | decembris 18, 2014 |
| 4.2 | Bud Powell | aprīlis 23, 2015 |
| 4.3 | Billie Holiday | augusts 18, 2015 |
| 4.4 | Clifford Brown | decembris 8, 2015 |
| 4.5 | Coleman Hawkins | aprīlis 12, 2016 |
| 4.6 | Pepper Adams | augusts 16, 2016 |
| 4.7 | Sarah Vaughan | decembris 6, 2016 |
| 4.8 | Bill Evans | jūnijs 8, 2017 |
| 4.9 | Billy Tipton | novembris 15, 2017 |
| 5.0 | Bebo Valdés | decembris 6, 2018 |