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WordPress 2.5 Sneak Peek Released

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If you have been waiting anxiously for the WordPress team to release the latest version of the blogging platform you may have been disappointed a tad bit. But that was all in the past. The WordPress team have released a Release Candidate (RC1) version of the tagged WordPress 2.5.

The release candidate is most likely going to be the final build and unless some major bugs are reported you can get ready to upgrade in the next couple of days.

Some of the major changes in the new version include;

Total revamp of the Dashboard

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New Navigation in the Admin Panel

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Improvements in the Write Panel

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And a improvement in the Management Section

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Well if you are looking to try out this before it is officially released you can download the WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate and test it out on your blog or local WordPress install.

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  1. Nirmal on March 18th, 2008 at 10:51 pm #

    I too saw it at the wordpress blog, I’ll try it on a demo site. BTW I hope automatic plugin would be able to update this version. :-)

    • Keith Dsouza on March 19th, 2008 at 12:24 pm #

      I am working on checking to find any bugs in the automatic upgrade plugin, if there are any I will definitely fix it and upload a new version