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. | Май 27, 2003 |
| 1.0 | Miles Davis | Январь 3, 2004 |
| 1.2 | Charles Mingus | Май 22, 2004 |
| 1.5 | Billy Strayhorn | Февраль 17, 2005 |
| 2.0 | Duke Ellington | Декабрь 31, 2005 |
| 2.1 | Ella Fitzgerald | Январь 22, 2007 |
| 2.2 | Stan Getz | Май 16, 2007 |
| 2.3 | Dexter Gordon | Сентябрь 24, 2007 |
| 2.5 | Michael Brecker | Мартъи 29, 2008 |
| 2.6 | McCoy Tyner | Июль 15, 2008 |
| 2.7 | John Coltrane | Декабрь 10, 2008 |
| 2.8 | Chet Baker | Июнь 11, 2009 |
| 2.9 | Carmen McRae | Декабрь 18, 2009 |
| 3.0 | Thelonious Monk | Июнь 17, 2010 |
| 3.1 | Django Reinhardt | Февраль 23, 2011 |
| 3.2 | George Gershwin | Июль 4, 2011 |
| 3.3 | Sonny Stitt | Декабрь 12, 2011 |
| 3.4 | Grant Green | Июнь 13, 2012 |
| 3.5 | Elvin Jones | Декабрь 11, 2012 |
| 3.6 | Oscar Peterson | Август 1, 2013 |
| 3.7 | Count Basie | Октябрь 24, 2013 |
| 3.8 | Charlie Parker | Декабрь 12, 2013 |
| 3.9 | Jimmy Smith | Апрель 16, 2014 |
| 4.0 | Benny Goodman | Сентябрь 4, 2014 |
| 4.1 | Dinah Washington | Декабрь 18, 2014 |
| 4.2 | Bud Powell | Апрель 23, 2015 |
| 4.3 | Billie Holiday | Август 18, 2015 |
| 4.4 | Clifford Brown | Декабрь 8, 2015 |
| 4.5 | Coleman Hawkins | Апрель 12, 2016 |
| 4.6 | Pepper Adams | Август 16, 2016 |
| 4.7 | Sarah Vaughan | Декабрь 6, 2016 |
| 4.8 | Bill Evans | Июнь 8, 2017 |
| 4.9 | Billy Tipton | Ноябрь 15, 2017 |
| 5.0 | Bebo Valdés | Декабрь 6, 2018 |