The best new feature in WordPress 2.5 isn’t the gallery, as you might expect. No, it is the native tag manager, something 2.3 (which introduced native tagging) lacked. Finally, seriously, finally! I can’t begin to understand why they added tagging functionality i 2.3, but didn’t give us the means to edit our tags in a decent manner? Anyway, remedied now.

Also, so far so good with WordPress 2.5! I just might upgrade a bunch of blogs tomorrow, we’ll see.

This blog is powered by WordPress 2.3.3, at least for another few minutes. I’m updating it to 2.5 now, so stay tuned for some weirdness. I’ll let you know here how it goes, of course.

Update! Right, so I’m now using 2.5. The upgrade went smoothly and everything seems to work. Sweet.

WordPress 2.5 is out, and wordpress.org has gotten a new design. Nice. If I find the time, I think I’ll go against my own judgement and install 2.5 early on, instead of awaiting the 2.5.1 bug fix that is bound to come along.

WordPress 2.5 RC2 is out, which is promising. I’ll probably put this one on a demo blog if I have the time, or perhaps even here. The most interesting addition is the gallery functionality, including nifty upload of multiple files at once. If you don’t want to install the release candidate, which is better than beta but not quite full, you can check out Matt’s screencast which demos this well enough.

Sorry about your teeth man!

The first release candidate of WordPress 2.5 is out, and pimped by Matt Mullenweg in a post about the new admin interface over at the official dev blog. If I wasn’t so engrossed in my moving the office (which will happen this evening), I would give it a go. Do try it if you like.

I know, I’m just being snarky and obnoxious. The new version of WordPress, version 2.5 (you know what I think about that number) was due yesterday, March 10th, but isn’t released yet. I’m not surprised, you’re not surprised, actually, nobody’s surprised. Most releases are late, and WordPress are notoriously on this aspect. More

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.