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