WordPress 2.5 are mere days away (it’s slated for March 10), so if you’re going to upgrade right away you better get started future-proofing your blog. The always excellent Lorelle’s got a checklist up on The Blog Herald, with links to more reading. Check it out.

Personally, I won’t make the switch to 2.5 until a week or two after release. I usually await responses on the WordPress support forums to see what kind of problems people are having. Maybe that makes me overly cautious, but I like my blogs running smoothly, not struggling with error messages and bugs in a new release. That being said, I do keep my blogs updated within the branch I’m in (2.3 at the moment), so when I do switch to 2.5, I’ll be committing to it.

And I still think skipping 2.4 in the naming hierarchy is both stupid and confusing. To make things clear: 2.3 is the current version, the next version is 2.5.