Much to everyone’s surprise, Automattic announced WordPress 2.6 today.
WordPress 2.6 has copied borrowed the best feature of Tumblr - their quick post bookmarklet that auto-detects photos and videos on a web page and enables you to quickly repost these items on your own WordPress blog.
The other useful features in WordPress 2.6 are Image captions, Google Gears support and Wikipedia style document revisions which come quite handy if you are working with multiple authors on the same post or want to revert to a previous version.
Matt has a detailed list of changes made in WordPress 2.6 though there aren’t any bug fixes or security related updates so am not sure if this qualifies as a must-have upgrade. You can download WordPress 2.6 here.
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Reader Comments
Hope WordPress 2.6 will resolve all problems spacially related to media upload. If am not wrong it has shifted config .php from root. Okay lets see -what it has to offer us .
Written by Shanker Bakshi on 07.14.08
Too many upgrades too fast. Wordpress is supposed to make blogging easy but with an upgrade every 3 weeks I’m devoting a huge chunk of time to upgrading, backing up, and dealing with plugin problems. More is not better.
Written by Roosh on 07.15.08
The “Press It” bookmarklet has been there for ages. Even blogger has a similar bookmarklet.
Written by Phoenix on 07.15.08
Phoenix - this is a tumblr style bookmarklet that detects videos and photos contained in a web page.
Written by Amit Agarwal on 07.15.08
Well, in Wordpress it says Version 2.6 fixes approximately 194 bugs. Thats enought for me to upgrade.
Written by Gustavo Leig on 07.15.08