Rollout Plan
All upgrades to 3.4 will be rolled out from Tuesday June 19th 2012. No downtime is required.
Release Notes
This release includes significant improvements security, performance.
New Features
You can embed a Twitter comment or YouTube Video directly into your Post/Page by just providing the URL.
Twitter Embeds
Share Tweets with Style
You can now embed individual tweets in posts. It includes action links that allow readers to reply to, retweet, and favorite the tweet without leaving your site. Just paste a tweet URL on its own line.
This works with URLs from some other sites, too. For more, see the Codex article on Embeds.
You can use all of these:
- YouTube (only public videos and playlists – “unlisted” and “private” videos will not embed)
- Vimeo
- DailyMotion
- blip.tv
- Flickr (both videos and images)
- Viddler
- Hulu
- Qik
- Revision3
- Scribd
- Photobucket
- PollDaddy
- WordPress.tv (only VideoPress-type videos for the time being)
- SmugMug (WordPress 3.0+)
- FunnyOrDie.com (WordPress 3.0+)
- Twitter (WordPress 3.4+)
Better Captions
You can now format your captions- adding bold, italic, colour and hyperlinks.
Full details http://wordpress.org/news/2012/06/green/
