Approx. 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 |
