After numerous delays, development on Breadcrumb NavXT 3.4.0 has resumed. Currently, the status of hierarchical custom taxonomy support is being evaluated. Single level custom taxonomies appear to work correctly, minus a few things pertaining to Breadcrumb NavXT settings (e.g. it will still say “Archive by Tag:” on custom taxonomy archive pages). After that, for the 3.4.0 release, all that remains will be to do some reworking of the administrative interface to handle the new taxonomy structure. Do note that while hierarchical custom taxonomies are some what broken (in WordPress) at the moment, since the API is already there, when they do get fixed Breadcrumb NavXT will be ready to take full advantage of them.
Also, due to the change in how taxonomies are handled internally by Breadcrumb NavXT in version 3.4.0, versions of WordPress prior to 2.8 may generate errors. One is not checking for WordPress compatibility prior to 2.8.x.
By Monday, November 16th, the translation team will be notified that the SVN trunk version of Breadcrumb NavXT will be ready for translation updates. This places the release date for 3.4.0 on November 20th at the earliest, and November 23rd being the likely release date. The forecast for 3.5.0 places the release near the end of January, 2010.
-John Havlik
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