Wordpress 2.6 released

Wordpress 2.6 was released a couple of days ago. I’ve held back posting about it until I had it installed on all of my blogs.

Installation was painless. The longest part of the process was backing everything up, but then that’s something you should be doing regularly anyway.

There’s a ton of new features and bug fixes. The following video will explain it better than I can

My favourite new features so far are the updated image handler - everything seems much more intuitive now - and Gears support. This makes a tremendous difference to the speed of the site. Handy when creating posts within the web interface, which is my preferred method. I’m looking forward to see what else they can do with Gears with coming releases.

One thing to watch out for if you post from a desktop application: XML-RPC publishing is now OFF by default, so you’ll have to go and switch it on if you want to use your blogging application to post.

There are a bunch of “proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions”, so, as always, I’d recommend the upgrade even if you don’t want the new features.