Neither of  the 2.4.1 or 2.5 versions were officially released in the Themes Directory, so for many users, 2.5.1 rolls up several months of changes, fixes, and enhancements.

Highlights:

• Use WordPress’s body_class() to automatically generate CSS classes for content
• Use post_class() for same reasons
• Rename ambigious #page element ID to #content-wrapper
• Standardize use of wp_link_pages() for intra-article pagination
• Add sticky post styling
• Replace deprecated use of include() with get_template_part()
• Cleanup places where floats need explicit clearing
• Adopt the comment_form() function and stop hand-building the comment form
• Comments on Pages
• Standardize the inner link to #comments like every other wp theme on the planet
• Give the widget sidebar a name
• Improve and complete excerpt handling
• Initial Post Thumbnail/Featured Image support
• Add custom background image and color support and theme admin interface
• Use the_widget() where possible in default sidebar
• Improve single-image view (image.php template)
• Replace deprecated get_links_list() with wp_list_bookmarks()
• New Turkish tr_TR locale courtesy of Default32

Check the complete changelog for more details.

Download Simplish version 2.5.1 here (.zip, sha1:44ea012de16b4a50a3ba1fb67efd74136390b7b9), or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.

Highlighted changes:

• Add basic ARIA landmark roles support
• Add Russian (ru_RU) localization (courtesy Michael Sgibnev)
• Update Greek (el) localization for new v2.4+ strings (thanks to Demetris)

Download Simplish version 2.4.1 here (.zip, sha1:8f7e3ac0709076b60127b648c9d669835446a9ab), or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.

First and foremost: This release is not compatible with earlier versions of WordPress. Use it only with WP3.0 and up.

Only minor refinements are apparent to the eye: You won’t see the word “Trackback” in the comments area anymore, and the former “Pages” list in the default sidebar is now labeled “Navigation” to accommodate the optional custom menu. Just beneath the surface, the theme now outputs HTML5 where once there was XHTML 1.0.

Highlighted Changes

• HTML5 output
• Support new custom menus
• New CSS reset
• Suppress the inline gallery style — remove a validation stumbling block
• CSS updates for gallery styling, efficiency
• Use automatic feed links for uniform & dynamic header metadata
• Rewrite and modernize functions.php — better child theme override support
• Replace/remove deprecated WordPress function calls

Check out the change log for a complete list.

Download Simplish version 2.4 here (.zip, sha1:65dcb73e219d6ea20a3363554e76e2033a5b4db0), or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.

Simplish 2.3 continues to be the official release for stable WordPress (v2.9.2).

• Synchronized French and Swedish translations
• Decreased vertical space below the byline on each post
• Switch back to Verdana font on Windows (from Calibri)

Download Simplish version 2.2.1 here (.zip, sha1:ac7b527fce64c8f40c2556fef9caa18098b2ceb0), or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.

On a display, there is only a single visible change in this release, but the numerous changes to the theme’s CSS will affect customizers or child-themers and therefore prompt a minor version bump over the venerable 2.1[.x] series. Print styles, on the other hand, have changed both in code and in visual presentation.

In honor of translators’ contributions since version 2.1.17, the Simplish Demo is rotating through the supported localizations.

Highlighted Changes

• Add fr_FR localization for French, thanks to ttynixer.
• Add pt_PT localization for Portuguese, thanks to ttynixer.
• Optimize CSS according to Google Page Speed analysis.
• Rewrite CSS for simplicity and efficiency. Reduce over-specification.
• Trim dead selectors/rules. Merge some sharable selectors/rules.
• Add new archives-list CSS class for common multiple-post listing styles.
• Add underline on hover to author name in post byline.
• More precisely define font, color, layout rules for printed output.

For a very detailed record of the changes in this release, see the developer changelog.

Download Simplish version 2.2 here (.zip, sha1:876b61a43a5da2bf98dd6392d65f972008956495), or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.

Changes

• Spacing from sidebar element bottom to next element’s h2 consistent. (Noted especially on Search element.)
• Spacing below tag cloud widget, if any, matches normal element spacing.
• Footer links and blog info in style.css use new URL (http://simplish.pomfolio.com/).

Download version 2.1.12 (.zip, 95KB), or see it soon in the WordPress Themes Directory.

Download Simplish version 2.1.11 here, or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.

This release simply serves to get the very-slightly-different code we’ve run since the 2.1.9 release out into daylight.

It has had the benefit of production use and testing up to the latest WordPress svn tip (inclusive of the current release, 2.8.4, of course).

Download Simplish version 2.1.10 here, or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.

This is a very-minor release that:

• Styles image captions (generated by WP2.6+) with nicer font and spacing/padding
• Removes unused code in image.php