WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” Finally Released
A few days ago we told you about WordPress folks announcing the release of WordPress2.7, however the release to self hosted WordPress users was delayed for some reason. That said the WordPress team has finally released WordPress 2.7 to users today and you can download and use it immediately.
If you are unaware of the features available in WordPress 2.7, do take a look at our WP 2.7 hands-on review, that walks you through some of the best features available.
Sadly this is the last time many of you will be using WPAU to automatically upgrade your blog, so it is time to finally say Adios to WPAU, Rest in Peace.
Update: I was able to update my personal blog to WordPress 2.7 using WPAU, so there should be no issues there while doing the final upgrade 
Dan Cramer
December 10th, 2008 at 11:54 pm #
How were you able to use WPAU to get to 2.7? The status page says that I am up to date and doesn’t give the option.
That being said I’m sad to see this plugin get phased out. I appreciate the hard work that was put in to help us keep our software up to date. Thanks for all the work and time you’ve put into this.
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Aravind Jose T.
December 11th, 2008 at 2:11 am #
Why is this the last time to use WPAU ?
And, won’t it work out when upgrading from 2.6.1 to 2.7 ?
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Aravind Jose T.
December 11th, 2008 at 2:12 am #
Okay.
So, WP adopted your work and included, automatic update.
Cool
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Khaled
December 11th, 2008 at 2:39 am #
You did a great job, I’ve used it many times and it always works.
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quicoto
December 11th, 2008 at 2:41 am #
My personal blog running your plugin doesn’t know there is an update. It says me I’m already updated.
Any way for force the update ? Or just wait ?
Thanks
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Avinash
December 11th, 2008 at 11:56 am #
Hi, Gr8 job on the plugin, Will the WPAU update also update the comments to make it compatible with 2.7 or is it advisable to make the theme 2.7 comments compatible and then update using WPAU.
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Raju
December 12th, 2008 at 5:54 am #
Thank you! I was unsure of using WPAU plugin, not anymore!
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Minnesota Attorney
December 12th, 2008 at 2:43 pm #
Do you recommend updating immediately, or is it better to give plugin authors time to update their plugins?
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drivelocity
December 15th, 2008 at 4:20 pm #
I wasn’t going to, but I decided to upgrade today to 2.7 w/out waiting for 2.7.1. So far, so good. All the plugins seemed to have made it over and I’m happy with the newest version
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