What will most likely be Breadcrumb NavXT 3.8.0 is feature complete. All features scheduled for this release, as stated in Plugin Roadmaps for H1 2011, have been implemented. Just a little tidying up of loose ends is needed before sending it off for translation. Additionally, a tutorial demonstrating the new bcn_display_nested() function needs to be written. The intent is to release the tutorial the day of or after the release of 3.8.0.

The actual release date is deep into February. This is primarily due other commitments I have. Additionally, it allows time to prepare WP Lynx for the release wave.

Grab the Breadcrumb NavXT SVN Trunk version to try out 3.8.0 before it is released.

-John Havlik

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What will become Breadcrumb NavXT 3.7.0 has been released for translation to the translation team. With the upcoming holiday next week in the US, the official release is planned for Monday, November 29th. While the translators update their translations, there is plenty of time for interested users to try out the new version, play with the new features, and look for bugs.

There has been a ton of code change in regards to settings installs and upgrades. Support for multi sites has been added, and I definitely need feedback on the current implementation. Changes were made to how custom post types are supported, and a root page akin to the “page on front” and “posts page” settings in WordPress were added for each custom post type. Breadcrumb trails for attachments should display the full hierarchy once again. I accidentally broke that in the 3.6.0 release.

I will be performing several regression tests, on top of what has already been done, over the next week. Hopefully, this will be the smoothest release to date.

Grab the Breadcrumb NavXT SVN Trunk version to try out 3.7.0 before it is released.

-John Havlik

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Available for immediate consumption, WP Lynx 0.2.1 has been released. After being notified two weeks ago of an issue with the install script, I meant to release a fix last week. Today, I realized that my initial fix did not work as expected—good thing I had not released 0.2.1 yet.

This is a very minor update, that will save new users headaches after first installing the plugin. This was verified to work as expected on WordPress 3.1-alpha. Note, there are some bugs when using WordPress in Network/Multi Site mode. I am looking into those, and will address them with another update.

-John Havlik

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WordPress 3.0.1, for some reason, does not do a proper deactivation/activation cycle on upgrading plugins. Due to database changes in 3.6.0, Breadcrumb NavXT requires a deactivation/activation cycle before it functions correctly. This specifically affects your traditional post and page breadcrumb trails, and a deactivation/activation cycle should clear it up.

Update: It looks like this is caused by the Dashboard > Updates multi plugin updater, use the regular one in Plugins > Plugins.

-John Havlik

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