This week’s meetup wasn’t too heavy, some fairly light items as the developers are preparing to release WordPress 2.9 soon. WordPress 2.8.5 was recently released as a security update, termed as a “hardening release,” so make sure you are up to date. There were two highlight points of discussion for this week’s meetup. WordPress Mailing …

This week’s dev notes are fairly brief. The primary point I think is worth mentioning is that PHP4 is still being supported. Around 14:22 (PST) of the meeting, it was confirmed that PHP4 is still slightly under 13% usage world wide for WordPress sites. PHP4 will stop being supported when usage gets below 10%. There …