• Fixed relative path function to work correctly when WordPress is installed in a subdirectory
• Updated jQuery to 1.5.2
• Fixed comments to show avatars correctly

Jenny Jui-Shan Liang

• Added support for 960.gs thanks to John Liuti
• Added more onto the .htaccess from HTML5 Boilerplate
• Made the theme directory and name renamable

John Liuti, Jeremiah Wall

• Changed name from BB to Roots
• Updated various areas to match the latest changes to HTML5 Boilerplate
• Changed the theme markup based on hCard/Readability Guidelines and work by Jonathan Neal
• Theme activation now creates the navigation menus and automatically sets their locations
• Permalink structure is now set to /%year%/%postname%/ for performance reasons
• Uploads folder is now /assets/ and not organized by month and date
• All static folders in /wp-content/themes/roots/ (css/, js/, img/) now rewrite to the root (/css/, /js/, /img/)
• /wp-content/plugins/ now rewrites to /plugins/
• More root relative URLs on WordPress functions
• Search results (/?s=query) now rewrites to /search/query/
• l10n.js is deregistered
• Gallery shortcode has been changed to output <figure> and <figcaption> and now links to the file by default
• Added more loop.php templates
• Made the HTML editor have a monospaced font
• Added front-page.php
• Updated CSS for Gravity Forms 1.5
• Added searchform.php template

Scott Walkinshaw, Matthew Price, Kyle Geminden, Steve Jothen

• Added a notification when saving the theme settings
• Added support for navigation menus
• Created function that makes sure there is a Home page on theme activation
• Updated various areas to match the latest changes to HTML5 Boilerplate

• Logo is no longer an <h1>
• Added ARIA roles again
• Changed ul#nav to nav#nav-main
• Added vCard to footer
• Made all URL's root relative
• Added Twitter and Facebook widgets to footer
• Added SEO optimized robots.txt from WordPress codex

• Added asynchronous Google Analytics
• Updated .htaccess with latest changes from HTML5 Boilerplate

• Removed optimizeLegibility from headings
• Updated jQuery to latest version
• Implemented HTML5 Boilerplate .htaccess

• Added some presentational CSS classes
• Added footer widget
• Added more Gravity Forms default styling

• Added HTML5 Boilerplate changes
• Implemented loop.php
• wp_head cleanup
• Added page-subpages.php template

• Integrated Paul Irish's frontend-pro-template (the original HTML5 Boilerplate)

• Added Blueprint CSS to Starkers

Major components:

• HTML5 Boileplate: The Unlicense
• Blueprint CSS: Modified MIT License
• 960 Grid System: MIT/GPL license
• Modernizr: MIT/BSD license
• jQuery: MIT/GPL license

Everything else:

• The Unlicense (aka: public domain)

Roots is a starting WordPress theme made for developers that's based on HTML5 Boilerplate, Blueprint CSS and Starkers that will help you rapidly create brochure sites and blogs.