Almost two weeks ago, the release of Breadcrumb NavXT was said to occur last week. While the features new to 3.2.0 are done, there are some minor tweaks that need to be done before the translators can begin translating the new strings. Due to some new features, one was waiting of feedback on their implementation before proceeding. Additionally, Breadcrumb NavXT 3.2.0’s administrative interface was adapted to work on WordPress 2.8. The problem being these modifications break WordPress 2.7 support for the tabbed options, and WordPress 2.8’s release slipping three weeks (it’ll be another two weeks before 2.8 is released).

So where does this leave us? It will take this weekend to finish up some code to make the administrative interface compatible with WordPress 2.7 again. Additionally, some WordPress MU testing will take place, preliminary tests show that Breadcrumb NavXT 3.2.0 should behave as expected with WordPress MU 2.7.1. Currently, next Thursday is the intended release date for Breadcrumb NavXT 3.2.0.

-John Havlik

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Some changes to the administrative interface for Breadcrumb NavXT may affect it’s ability to work in some versions of WordPress MU. In particular, WPMU 2.7 users are need to check if the SVN Trunk version works as intended. Monday the translators will be notified of the changes to the translations. The real release will happen after next Wednesday.

-John Havlik

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Here’s the scoop, due to classes, the release of Breadcrumb NavXT 3.2.0 did not make it in March. This past week Tom and I have been working on various parts of the administrative interface. All proposed core changes have been made, and all that remains is some administrative interface related features. These include importing/exporting options and the ability to reset the options to defaults. More on the importing and exporting on release, which looks like will be next Friday.

-John Havlik

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Since there were no regressions from the 3.0.2 release to the 3.1.0 release, the next release will be 3.2.0. Expect this to ship at the end of the month, possibly into early April. For 3.2.o some things will be changing in the core. Some of these changes fix a regression between 2.x and 3.x in the handling of attachments to posts (the full taxonomy path will be shown in 3.2.0, the fix is already in the SVN trunk).

The bcn_breadcrumb_trail->display() function will be rewritten to work for either reverse or forward oriented breadcrumb trails. A supplemental function will be added that works similar to bcn_breadcrumb_trail->display(), but each breadcrumb is wrapped in <li> tags, this will make it easier for those who want that type of output. Some minor changes to the administrative interface will occur as well. Finally, some performance evaluation will occur durring this round to hopefully identify and correct any potential performance issues.

-John Havlik

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