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After six months of work by WordPress community especially the development team, yesterday the WordPress 2.5 has been released to the public. It’s just 3 days after WordPress RC2 launched.

So what’s new features in this major milestone of WordPress? Both of user and developer got a lot of new features in this version. That’s why this version took a long time to be launched with some of delay from the schedule.

User Features:

1. Cleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard
2. Dashboard Widgets
3. Multi-file upload with progress bar
4. Bonus: EXIF extraction
5. Search posts and pages
6. Tag management
7. Password strength meter
8. Concurrent editing protection
9. Few-click plugin upgrades
10. Friendlier visual post editor
11. Built-in galleries

Developer Features:

1. Salted passwords
2. Secure cookies
3. Easy taxonomy and URL creation
4. Inline documentation
5. Database optimization
6. $wpdb->prepare()
7. Media buttons
8. Shortcode API

Hmm.. There is so many features and it’s beside the fixing some bugs from the older version and also the admin themes redesign.

I’m interested but how to upgrade?
If you want to upgrade to this new version just use the standard upgrade instruction because the database layout isn’t changed from the earlier. The important thing is check your plugins because the most problem is coming from this area.

A small notes from me
I will upgrade ignati [dot] com to the new 2.5 and i hope everything is under control. But i will upgrade it at this night (in my time) so tomorrow everything should be fine without error. How about you, would you upgrade your blog?

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