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Woot, just after a short beta releases and now 2.6 is officially released.

I have upgraded to 2.6 now and so far so good.

Cheers

Wordpress 2.6 RC1 has been released. I have upgraded my blog to RC1 and everything works well. Cant wait for the full releases.

Download here and changes:

• Media uploader and gallery improvements
• Image caption and image editing fixes
• Press This fixes
• Ability to toggle between the flash uploader and a regular browser uploader
• Notification bubble on the Plugins menu when plugin updates are available

Wordpress 2.6 Beta 2 now available for download after second week of the Beta releases.

New in Beta 2:

• Insert image and edit image fixes
• SSL fixes
• i18n fixes
• Lots of new inline documentation
• Improved tag auto-suggest
• TinyMCE 3.1.1 with Opera 9.5 and Safari fixes, proper align = center removal, and improved embeds support
• jQuery UI 1.5.1

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Yeah, another new beta releases of Wordpress. Some of the new features pretty impressive like the Theme preview, you can now preview the theme without activate it first ! Post Revisioning, what a great function to get everything logged and you can view them anytime and reverse any changes you have made. Again, this is still in beta version, use as your own risks .

Download here and features as follows:

• Post Revisioning
• A “Press This” bookmarklet for tumblelog style quick posting
• Caching of static files with Gears for faster Admin page loads
• A new and improved image editing dialog that offers lots of control over the images in your posts
• Theme previewing as seen on WordPress.com
• Built-in word counting in the post editor
• The ability to disable remote publishing for the security conscious
• XML-RPC API for changing blog options
• Better SSL support for the Admin
• Hierarchy-aware paging in the Manage Pages and Manage Categories admin pages.
• The ability to relocate your content directory
• The ability to move wp-config.php out of your web root
• Drag-and-drop sortable galleries
• Customizable default avatars
• Bulk delete, activate, and deactivate for plugins
• Check box range selection with shift-click
• TinyMCE 3.1.0.1 with lots of bug fixes
• jQuery 1.2.6 with some nice performance improvements
• jQuery UI 1.5
• Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available after just about a month of the previous releases of version 2.5. Some of the changes including bug fixes, performance enhancements, and security fix.

Main highlights:

• Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
• Better performance for those who have many categories
• Media Uploader fixes
• An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
• Widget Administration fixes
• Various usability improvements
• Layout fixes for IE

Apart from upgraded to Wordpress 2.5, I also change to a new theme called LightBreaker. LightBreaker was designed by a Malaysian guy at wpthemesplugin.com, a normal blog layout with some interesting added features.

This theme comes with Adsense ready script and all you have to do is just change your adsense ID in a config file and you are ready to rock.

After upgraded to 2.5 version. Theres one problem with the new media upload function. When using FIrefox 2 and you try to upload a picture or video, it says in the image uploader “An error occurred in the upload. Please try again later”.

After doing some researches in the official Wordpress forum, I found out I am not alone. This problem was caused by the server apache mod_security has been turned on and blocked the media uploader. If you do not have the permission to turn it off, you can turn in off by file basics by adding the following codes to your .htaccess file.

SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI ^Your-Wordpress-Path/wp-admin/async-upload.php$ MODSEC_ENABLE=Off

Obviously you need to change the “You-WOrdpress-Path” to your installation path name such as “Wordpress/” or “/” . This should solved the all the problems.

Wordpress 2.5 full version finally has been released yesterday. It is identical with previous beta release RC1 and RC2. You can go here to read the full release notes.

I have updated this blog to the 2.5 version but you wont notice any different from the front end as most of the changes are in the back end administration panel.

Just after a week the RC1 was released, today wordpress announced the RC2 is out. There is no compatibility issues with themes as nothing has changed in core of the themes. A screencast also posted in the RC2 article showing how to play around with the Wordpress 2.5.

I personally loves the new build in gallery system as it works flawlessly and doesnt required 3rd party plugins with is good for future compatibility.

Wordpress has released 2.5 RC1 version for us. No different on the front end but significant changes in the back end admin control panel. Most of the function has been restructured into different sections for better access in mind. Old users may need to spend some time to figure out where is the usual function link located in.

After upgrading to Wordpress 2.5 RC1, one of the plugin called WP-ContactForm crash the �Add media� function in post writing page. If you have the similar problem just deactivate the plugin and look for alternative plugin. http://wp-plugins.net is a good place to start with.