WordPress 2.5 due in 6 hours

It’s been a while since WordPress 2.3 was released in September but today should see the release of WordPress 2.5.

I’ll likely be online later tonight to give it a test drive and I’m sure we will see loads of plugins and themes that have been broken by it, but here are some of the new features:

• New admin interface (looks quite neat)
• Widget based dashboard (wooo!)
• Built in Avatar support
• Tag management
• Full text feeds
• Automatic plugin upgrades(!)
• Built in Gallery feature

Just need to get a built in forum and bbPress integration and I’ll be a happy man.. Hopefully that will come in the next release.

Download will be from the usual place.

I might also upgrade Ciarans blog, which went live last night and should be added to your RSS reader!