List of enhances of features:
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Highlights
Refreshed Administative UI - Admin redesign
New Default Theme "Twenty Eleven" - Uses the latest Theme Features
Full Screen Editor - Distraction free writing experience
Extended Admin Bar - More useful links to control the site
Requirements Changes -
PHP 5.2.4 or greater (old requirement - since WordPress 2.5 was PHP 4.3 or greater)
MySQL 5.0.15 or greater (old requirement - since WordPress 2.9 was MySQL 4.1.2 or greater)
Enhanced Browser Compatibility -
Drop Internet Explorer 6 support
Start End-of-life (EOL) cycle for Internet Explorer 7
Browse Happy notify users of out-of-date browser
WordPress is Faster -
Faster page loads -- We've gone through the most commonly loaded pages in WP and done improvements to their load time, for example the write page now loads XYZ% faster and paging through comments is ZYX% faster
Faster Upgrades -- The update system now support incremental upgrades so after 3.2 you'll find upgrading faster than ever e.g. FTP upgrade improvements
Optimisations to WP_Filesystem -- pass known information to called functions
Streamline WP_Http_*::test() methods -- Check basic SSL requirements, only allow filters to disable transports, not enable them after ::test() has failed
Take out unnecessary compat functions from compat.php
Constructor cleanup
Trimmed xx codes lines in core
Use stripos() instead of strpos( strtolower() )
Performance improvements for wptexturize()
Remove PHP4 timezone support
More efficient term intersection query
kses optimization
Speed optimizations for is_serialized_string()
Cache the Dashboard RSS Widgets HTML output to reduce the memory footprint
User Features
General
Admin Bar: Add a Themes submenu under Appearance, for consistency
Admin Bar: Add View Site/Dashboard links, 'View X' links in the admin, 'View' action link for terms, new custom taxonomy string: view_item, defaulting to 'View Tag' and View Category'
Admin Bar: Support Edit link for Attachments
Switch from "Panel/SubPanel" to "Screen" in inline documentation and Codex links
Add collapse link to admin menu
Help Tab text updates
Favorites menu no longer exists
New Freedoms (rights) and Credits links at bottom of admin screens
Use monospaced font for HTML editor
Validate the HTML in the admin area
Make copying the PressThis bookmarklet code easier in WebKit browsers
Move copyright notices to license.txt
Refresh login form styles to match admin style
Dashboard
Change View All Buttons into plain links
Show full set of status links in recent comments box
Drop "Change Theme" button
Update core UI changes; "Update Automatically" changed to "Update Now", first core update is now a primary button
Core support for partial updates
Posts
Change Menu Name from 'Posts' to 'All Posts'
Show the sticky posts checkbox ("Stick this post to the front page") Only when author has 'edit_others_posts' capability
Updated styles for the Visual editor buttons
Full screen editor experience called Distraction Free Writing - accessed via the Toggle Fullscreen mode tool in the Visual editor and fullscreen button in the HTML editor (Trac Ticket 17198)
New sprite for the TinyMCE buttons
Fix pagination when searching or filtering posts
Media
Add 'Add New' button to edit media
Update the blip.tv oEmbeds
Links
Change Menu Name from 'Links' to 'All Links'
Add 'Add New' button to edit links
Pages
Change Menu Name from 'Pages' to 'All Pages'
Comments
New comment bubble styling
Appearance
New Default theme - TwentyEleven - based on Duster Theme (Trac Ticket 17198).
Allow selecting previously uploader headers and randomly serving previously uploaded or default headers
Denote images that are headers or backgrounds in the media ui
Show hierarchy for pages and taxonomies in nav menus admin
Introduce new is_multi_author() template tag to make it easier for themes to have different behaviour when a site has more than one author
Be less specific about theme repo licenses (as they can vary in specifics). They are all compatible with the license WordPress uses
Plugins
Allow plugins to disable screen options with filter
Be less specific about plugin repo licenses (as they can vary in specifics). They are all compatible with the license WordPress uses
Tools
Change Menu Name from 'Tools' to 'All Tools'
Press This bookmarklet redesign
UI refresh for Press This
Export commentmeta
Users
Change Menu Name from 'Users' to 'All Users'
Add 'Add New' button to edit users
Settings
Install Process
Multisite
Show access denied page and list a user's sites if they visit an admin they don't have permissions for rather than redirecting to the users' primary blog
Make "Space Used" gray instead of green in multisite Right Now box
Make user validation when adding a user via network admin consistent with adding a user elsewhere and provide better feedback for validation problems
Allow Pagination for Must-Use/Dropin plugins; respect WP_CONTENT_DIR & WPMU_PLUGIN_DIR for help text; move help text into WP_Plugins_List_Table
Rename network admin submenus to not clash with top level menus
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Most CMS will get to his eventually... in 5 or 6 years. I can't imagine where WP will be at that time.
WARNING!
Although you'll get a message if you can't install WP 3.2, be sure that you have PHP5 and MySQL5 or it won't work, and for those that do clean installs they will have to revert to an older version of WP
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