Sam Bauers has released bbPress 1.0 final.

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-10-released
http://bbpress.org/blog/2009/07/bbpr...ally-released/

There's a whole swathe of improvements. Some of the improvements from the RC are quite major, including a major revamp of the admin interface, support for autoloading of functions.php files and there's a few other things which I think weren't available in the RCs but I may have missed.

The most noticeable one I saw was the addition of a new default plugin called
"Hello Louie". Basically it's "Hello Dolly" but for bbPress. It's basically useless as with "Hello Dolly".

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Looks like there's a new version of Kakumei in there. It looks a little different, but is essentially the same Kakumei theme as before, just with a few design tweaks I think.

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Will give 1.0 a go on my local tomorrow.

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I've updated to 1.0 final.

Upgrade went smoothly, and everything looks and works great!

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By the way, am I the only one that isn't crazy about the new Admin icons (Bee, Honey, Hive)? They're cute and all (and "bee"/bbPress - I get it), but they're not terribly functional.

(Or maybe it's just my engineer-wired brain?)

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Where are these icons? I heard about them, I even saw screenshots of them but I have no idea where they are in the admin panel.

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Go to your bbPress dashboard, and look at the main menu (on the left, below the "Dashboard" button).

The icon for "Forums" is a beehive.
The icon for "Topics" is a honeybee.
The icon for "Posts" is a honeycomb.

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Ah, I see now. Yeah, that's weird. I wonder why they chose to do that?

For WordPress they did a good job of consulting the community about the changes and the results seems to be quite good. That beehive thing is weird.

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I don't know why. They're completely unintuitive - especially for those who (like me) generally keep the menu minimized so that only the icons display.

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I guess beehive has some vague login in that it's where everything happens. I would have intuitively guessed that the bees of the hive are the users though, but that isn't what it links to. And honeycomb doesn't mean anything to me.

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