Reading Time: < 1 minuteJanuary 24, 2019

WORDPRESS JAZZ TRIBUTES

“WordPress core developers share a love of jazz music, and since WordPress 1.0 all major releases are named in honor of jazz musicians they admire.”

It doesn’t say anything about WordPress itself of course, but it’s fun nonetheless and fun mentioning.

Version	Release Date	Musician
1.0	January 3, 2004	Miles Davis
1.0.2	March 11, 2004	Art Blakey
1.2	May 22, 2004	Charles Mingus
1.5	February 17, 2005	Billy Strayhorn
2.0	December 26, 2005	Duke Ellington
2.1	January 22, 2007	Ella Fitzgerald
2.2	May 16, 2007	Stan Getz
2.3	September 24, 2007	Dexter Gordon
2.5	March 29, 2008	Michael Brecker
2.6	July 15, 2008	McCoy Tyner
2.7	December 10, 2008	John Coltrane
2.8	June 10, 2009	Chet Baker
2.9	December 18, 2009	Carmen McRae
3.0	June 17, 2010	Thelonious Monk
3.1	February 23, 2011	Django Reinhardt
3.2	July 4, 2011	George Gershwin
3.3	December 12, 2011	Sonny Stitt
3.4	June 13, 2012	Grant Green
3.5	December 11, 2012	Elvin Jones
3.6	August 1, 2013	Oscar Peterson
3.7	October 24, 2013	Count Basie
3.8	December 12, 2013	Charlie Parker
3.9	April 16, 2014	Jimmy Smith
4.0	September 4, 2014	Benny Goodman
4.1	December 17, 2014	Dinah Washington
4.2	April 23, 2015	Bud Powell
4.3	August 18, 2015	Billie Holiday
4.4	December 8, 2015	Clifford Brown
4.5	April 12, 2016	Coleman Hawkins
4.6	August 16, 2016	Pepper Adams
4.7	December 6, 2016	Sarah “Sassy” Vaughan
4.8	June 8, 2017	William John “Bill” Evans
4.9	November 15, 2017	Billy Tipton
5.0	December 6, 2018	Bebo Valdés
5.1	February 21, 2019	Betty Carter
5.2	May 7, 2019	Jaco Pastorius
5.3	November 12, 2019	Rahsaan Roland Kirk
5.4	March 31, 2020	Nat Adderley
5.5	August 11, 2020	Billy Eckstine
5.6	December 8, 2020	Nina Simone
5.7	March 9, 2021	Esperanza Spalding
5.8	July 20, 2021	Art Tatum
5.9	January 25, 2022	Joséphine Baker
6.0	May 24th 2022	Arturo O’Farrill
6.1	November 1st 2022	Mikhail Alperin
6.2	March 29, 2023	Eric Dolphy
6.3	August 8, 2023	Lionel Hampton