WordPress 2.6 released

Great news. Today on the WordPress front as version 2.6 “Tyner” has been released as a stable version. The latest WordPress version comes with a long list of improvements. The following list comes from the official WordPress announcement:

• Word count! Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.
• Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.
• Bulk management of plugins.
• A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.
• Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.
• Plugin update notification bubble.
• Customizable default avatars.
• You can now upload media when in full-screen mode.
• Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure (off) by default, but you can turn it on easily through the options screen.
• Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security.
• You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.
• Ability to move your

  wp-config

  file and

  wp-content

  directories to a custom location, for “clean” SVN checkouts.

• Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click.”
• You can toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.
• A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.
• Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.
• Version 2.6 fixes approximately 194 bugs.

Of all the improvements I really enjoy the new image system and the revision control as that where definitely points which needed improvement in previous versions of WordPress. If you want to see the new features in action, the WordPress guys have made a short video in which they explain the new features:

See wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26-tyner/ for more background details on WordPress version 2.6.