Wordpress recently released version 2.6 of their great open source blogging CMS. It was actually released ahead of schedule, and within a few months of the 2.5 release. I must say, great progress! All in all, it looks like they added several great features, fixed ~200 bugs, and improved existing features quite a bit. It’s worth the upgrade!

Excerpt of Official Announcement (full announcement):

’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.

We’ve prepared a brief video tour of 2.6, if you have 3 minutes and 29 seconds to spare, it’s worth a watch:

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