WordPress 2.5 (Final) has been released… go fetch it here:
I shall be upgrading in just a few minutes! As usual, I shall edit this post once it has finished!!
EDIT - All done! The biggest change I see right away is the plugin page now has the Active Plugins shaded green and the inactive in white… I like that much more than the gray and white they had been playing with.
For all you testers out there, WordPress RC2 has been released! I shall be upgrading to it in about 5 minutes and expect everything should go as well as always. The good news in this release?
Finally with regards to theme and plugin compatibility, we’ve had no reports of any broken themes in this upgrade, which makes sense because we didn’t really change anything core about themes, just added new optional capabilities like Gravatars. Plugins that work with the admin may require updating to take advantage of the new, cleaner UI in WordPress 2.5.
Awesome! Anywho, the download can be found here: Screencast & WordPress 2.5 RC2. I’ll update this post once I upgrade! See you on the other side!
EDIT - We’re back and I see no issues so far! My “Insert Link” and “Insert Picture” boxes are back working once again (hooray!) and I like the “Toggle Kitchen Sink” feature:
All my plugins seem to be working fine with the exception of some of the features in HeadSpace (but he’ll just have to update, methinks). All in all, I’m lovin’ v2.5 a lot right now… go try it out if you haven’t yet!!
I’ve backed up my old WordPress database and decided to get a jump on testing out WordPress 2.5. While the front-end of the site looks pretty much the same, the back-end will take much more getting used to. Check out the details and screenshots here (also for those brave enough, download your own copy!):
There are only a few things I’ve noticed that aren’t working. When making a URL, the link box is blank:
Also you might notice the “Visit Site” overlapping the “Write” button. This blank box also happens when trying to add an image. There’s a chance this is because of my browser, but I’m using FireFox 2.0.0.12 and that’s been pretty good to me. The only other issues come from plugins that haven’t been upgraded to work with 2.5, but there’s nothing to be done about that at the moment. Hopefully these issues will fix themselves by the final version, but beside that I’m impressed with all the good I see here!
The Wordpress 2.5 release may have been delayed a week, but you can still go play with it! Check out the latest version here:
While the outside looks about the same, the admin pages have gotten a huge upgrade. For those wanting to be the first one running it out of the gate, be sure and check out the WordPress Upgrade Preparation Checklist… it has great advice and links to some great tools (such as the Wordpress Upgrade Preflight Check Plugin), I think it should help those who don’t like upgrading things.
I’m looking forward to the new release… hell, it’d be real nice if I could complete the redesign and do both at once! I guess if I were to do that I’d have to really pick up the pace, but if anyone can do it, I can!
I’ve added a brand new “Stats” area while working on the new design (which will have one built in to the code)… you can see it here:
<————– Look that way!
The downside? By default all the “Views” start at a nice round 0. Ugh. I’ve looked and I’ve yet to find a way to “restore” the number of views to what it really should be (from what I can tell, WordPress doesn’t keep track of that). Oh well. I guess it’s better late than never, right? 
If you’d like this plugin, go here: Lester Chan’s WP-Postviews Plugin
Enjoy!
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