Mantra 1.9.0 has been released

Praise the Lord! and pass the ammunition… (thank you, Mr. Tankian).

Mantra 1.9.0 is out into the wild. The WordPress team approved it and it is now available for download.

Hopefully all most some of the bugs from 1.8.9 and 1.8.9.1 have been fixed so you can now go back to enjoying the extraordinary theme Mantra is (in its good days)…

In any case, being a major update, 1.9.0 comes packed with some neat new features, but I will not spoil the surprise as I am sure Mr. Kay will be updating this post to list the awesome new additions…

(a couple of hours later)

Kay here. Thank you Zed for the wonderful caring realist intro. I’ll continue with the new additions.

The new additions are:

• The export and import options. This has been by far the most time and thought consuming feature ever integrated into Mantra and it’s actually still in a test phase. Again we are counting on you to change that. Use and abuse this feature and let us know when it breaks. We’ll patch it up.
• Google fonts. Finally you can use them. Which ones? All of them! Just type the font family you want to use under text settings and that’s it. It’s really that easy. You are now awarded unlimited typographical power.
• New favicon uploader. It should now work as initially intended and should be more intuitive as it uses the WordPress media uploader. Go check it out!
• RSS news feed about Mantra … directly into the Mantra admin section. You can now see the latest Mantra news directly from the admin section. Imagine that! You’ll know everything there is to know about your favorite WordPress theme… and about Mantra. See what I did there?
• Made the mobile view optional. So now you can choose whether you want your theme to be responsive or not. You’ll find the option in the Misc Settings and it’s disabled by default as we’re still working on a couple of issues.
• Updated some HTML tags to HTML5. Changed a few function names.

For 1.9.1 we’re working on implementing posts’ data into the slider and columns. We’re also documenting ourselves on the new WP 3.4 version that brings a nice little addition to theme lovers.