WordPress 2.9 has been offi­cially released and can be down­load from WordPress.org. I have already updated my WordPress install to the lat­est release within the Dashboard. The upgrade itself was auto­matic with the need for me to update and re-enable plu­g­ins to get the lat­est ver­sion of every­thing. The entire process took about two min­utes. The upgrade process for WordPress is suburb.

For a under­stand­ing of what is new in WordPress…