WordPress 2.9 is available

Just in time for Christmas!

The developers at WordPress are rolling out version 2.9 “Carmen”, named in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae.  If you need to edit images I recommend that you upgrade now to take advantage of the new built-in image editor.

Some of the other headline features are…

• global undo/trash,
• batch upgrades,
• plugin compatibility checker,
• and easier embeds.

And of course it wouldn’t be a major release without a short video summarizing some of the cool things about the new version:

WordPress Version 3.0 (due out probably this spring) will have a new default theme, better upgrades, dynamic image resizing, and more.