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 |
|---|---|---|
| 5.8 | Art Tatum | ဇူလိုင် 20၊ 2021 |
| 5.7 | Esperanza Spalding | မတ် 9၊ 2021 |
| 5.6 | Nina Simone | ဒီဇင်ဘာ 8၊ 2020 |
| 5.5 | Billy Eckstine | ဩဂုတ် 11၊ 2020 |
| 5.4 | Nat Adderley | မတ် 31၊ 2020 |
| 5.3 | Rahsaan Roland Kirk | နိုဝင်ဘာ 12၊ 2019 |
| 5.2 | Jaco Pastorius | မေ 7၊ 2019 |
| 5.1 | Betty Carter | ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ 21၊ 2019 |
| 5.0 | Bebo Valdés | ဒီဇင်ဘာ 6၊ 2018 |
| 4.9 | Billy Tipton | နိုဝင်ဘာ 15၊ 2017 |
| 4.8 | Bill Evans | ဇွန် 8၊ 2017 |
| 4.7 | Sarah Vaughan | ဒီဇင်ဘာ 6၊ 2016 |
| 4.6 | Pepper Adams | ဩဂုတ် 16၊ 2016 |
| 4.5 | Coleman Hawkins | ဧပြီ 12၊ 2016 |
| 4.4 | Clifford Brown | ဒီဇင်ဘာ 8၊ 2015 |
| 4.3 | Billie Holiday | ဩဂုတ် 18၊ 2015 |
| 4.2 | Bud Powell | ဧပြီ 23၊ 2015 |
| 4.1 | Dinah Washington | ဒီဇင်ဘာ 18၊ 2014 |
| 4.0 | Benny Goodman | စက်တင်ဘာ 4၊ 2014 |
| 3.9 | Jimmy Smith | ဧပြီ 16၊ 2014 |
| 3.8 | Charlie Parker | ဒီဇင်ဘာ 12၊ 2013 |
| 3.7 | Count Basie | အောက်တိုဘာ 24၊ 2013 |
| 3.6 | Oscar Peterson | ဩဂုတ် 1၊ 2013 |
| 3.5 | Elvin Jones | ဒီဇင်ဘာ 11၊ 2012 |
| 3.4 | Grant Green | ဇွန် 13၊ 2012 |
| 3.3 | Sonny Stitt | ဒီဇင်ဘာ 12၊ 2011 |
| 3.2 | George Gershwin | ဇူလိုင် 4၊ 2011 |
| 3.1 | Django Reinhardt | ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ 23၊ 2011 |
| 3.0 | Thelonious Monk | ဇွန် 17၊ 2010 |
| 2.9 | Carmen McRae | ဒီဇင်ဘာ 18၊ 2009 |
| 2.8 | Chet Baker | ဇွန် 11၊ 2009 |
| 2.7 | John Coltrane | ဒီဇင်ဘာ 10၊ 2008 |
| 2.6 | McCoy Tyner | ဇူလိုင် 15၊ 2008 |
| 2.5 | Michael Brecker | မတ် 29၊ 2008 |
| 2.3 | Dexter Gordon | စက်တင်ဘာ 24၊ 2007 |
| 2.2 | Stan Getz | မေ 16၊ 2007 |
| 2.1 | Ella Fitzgerald | ဇန်နဝါရီ 22၊ 2007 |
| 2.0 | Duke Ellington | ဒီဇင်ဘာ 31၊ 2005 |
| 1.5 | Billy Strayhorn | ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ 17၊ 2005 |
| 1.2 | Charles Mingus | မေ 22၊ 2004 |
| 1.0 | Miles Davis | ဇန်နဝါရီ 3၊ 2004 |
| .70 | No musician chosen. | မေ 27၊ 2003 |