Interesting Fact: Most WordPress Releases Are Code Named After Well-Known Jazz Musicians Starting After Version 1.0

Jazzers WordPress core developers share a love of jazz music, and all major releases are named in honor of jazz musicians personally admired by the WordPress staff. Here's a list of releases and the musicians they were named for.



Version Musician



1.0 Miles Davis

1.2 Charles Mingus

1.5 Billy Strayhorn

2.0 Duke Ellington

2.1 Ella Fitzgerald

2.2 Stan Getz

2.3 Dexter Gordon

2.5 Michael Brecker

2.6 McCoy Tyner

2.7 John Coltrane

2.8 Chet Baker

2.9 Carmen McRae



There were three releases before [...]