WordPress 2.0.4 is imminent. The Testers List has been testing a beta release of 2.0.4 for the last few days, and now it is your turn to test. Grab the zip or tar and upgrade as you would for any other release. If all goes well the final 2.0.4 release will follow on soon and be identical to the beta.

Saints and sinners all agree
Spanish is a lovin’ tongue
But she never spoke Spanish to me

The translation work at wordpress.com is going well. I present to you the wordpress.com Dashboard in Spanish (mostly).

In addition to the option that sets the language to use for the front page of your blog, each user will be able to choose the language they want to use for the admin interface. If your blog is Spanish but you want to use English in the admin interface, you can do that. Each user gets to choose the language they want to see in the admin.

This isn’t yet live on wordpress.com but should be soon. If you use wordpress.com and want to help with translation, head over to translate.wordpress.com and translate a few strings. This will help other wordpress.com users as well as the WordPress and bbPress communities in general.

Update: Spanish is now active. Not all themes have been translated, but the admin area has good coverage.  If you don’t want your admin to display in Spanish, visit your profile and change the Interface Language (Idioma de la interface).

This one time, at WordCamp, I got a bit drunk off of all of the drinks people bought me in appreciation for writing the theme engine, adding i18n support, battling mod_rewrite, and being a swell guy and good tipper.

But seriously, WordCamp is coming soon and all of the Automattic crew will be there. I'm sure I'll be buying drinks for some of the many people who have contributed to WP and made it so successful. If you've had a patch land in WP, mention your changeset or ticket number for a free beer on me.

As announced on the dev blog, we have a bug hunt coming up soon. I'll be hanging out on the bugs channel and applying patches for most of the 24 hour hunt. The idea is to find and kill bugs to make ready for the 2.0.4 and 2.1 releases. Bugs found now won't be annoying you come release time, so drop by if you want to help test, code, or just hang out and watch.