Jerome has been busy this weekend merging his dev branch and bug checking all the new additions. I have no excuse then to postpone the release of the first 1.1.0 alpha much further, so I spent some time this morning before getting to work merging the (unreleased) general cleanup I did last week to the 1.0 branch with the trunk, which is now officially tagged as
Frontend_1-1-0-a1
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In the eat your own dogfood spirit, I have also update this site to 1.1.0-a1 so that we can properly test it, and so that you can see a few of the new features in action. The more visible feature (and the one I find more interesting) is what I call contextual content: showing different information depending on the context (category, archive, post) the user is in. More on this later. I have also enabled caching, so general users (i.e. users without a WP/LP cookie) should notice a speedup in rendering times.
Before I release a1, I'd like to finish the WP plugins to manage our configuration options from the WP console. Hope it will not take too long, stay tuned.
Not so much time as I had planned, but I did set up a test site using 1.1 and tried out the new WP plugin. Seems to work ok, except for a slashes issue with the LP install directory (Windows paths). The other item of note is that the default template needs to updated to use the new features.
More testing & patches likely later this week.