WordPress Version 3.8, named for Charlie Parker, was released to the public. For more information on this enhancement and bug-fix release, read the WordPress Blog, the Release Post, and see the Changelog for 3.8.
For Version 3.8, the database version (db_version in wp_options) changed to 26691, and the Trac revision was r26861.
Highlights
- Introduces a new, modern admin design
- A fresh, uncluttered design
- Clean typography with Open Sans
- Superior contrast and large, comfortable type
- Responsive interfaces throughout
- Refined, theme management
- Smoother, click-to-add widget management
- New Default Theme – Twenty Fourteen
- Easily create a responsive magazine website with a sleek, modern design.
- Feature your favorite homepage content in either a grid or a slider.
- Use the three widget areas to customize your website, and change your content’s layout with a full-width page template and a contributor page to show off your authors.
- For Developers
- External Libraries have been updated.
- Better RTL support