Wordpress 2.9 released

According to blog post on WordPress.org, Wordpress has released the new Wordpress 2.9 version of self hosted blogging platform. This new release code has been named as “Carmen”  in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae.

The new features in WordPress 2.9 are

undo/trash, that means if now you have deleted anything accidentally there is no need to worry as you can undo it from trash. Built in Image editor – So no need to install any third part plugin as you can do basis image editing in Wordpress itself. batch/group plugin update, update number of plugins in a one shot.

Other some of the cool things are ; now it supports better SEO (rel=canonical), Theme post image thumbnails (better for magazine style theme,  no need to write any specific code for it),pull attachments from your post so you can better organize your data by this you can create custom galleries,SSL support.

We will post more in-depth analysis as our in-house developers are playing around it. We suggest novices or less techie Wordpressers  to wait for a while before upgrading to Wordpress 2.9 as it may break your blog due to plugin and theme compatibility.