WordPress has finally released version 2.9 of the world’s greatest blogging platform. Known as “Carmen,” the new release is named in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae. WordPress 2.9 offers a huge array of upgrades and improvements over the previous WordPress 2.8.X. You can upgrade easily from your Dashboard by going to Tools > Upgrade, or you can download from WordPress.org.

If you’re still running WordPress 2.8, you should think about upgrading to 2.9 as it has many cool new features. However, if you follow WordPress history, you could also wait a week or two for the inevitable 2.9.1 release. The coolest new stuff from a user point of view inclue:

• Global undo/”trash” feature, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also eliminates those annoying “are you sure” messages we used to have on every delete.
• Built-in image editor allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images to show them who’s boss. This is the first wave of our many planned media-handling improvements.
• Batch plugin update and compatibility checking, which means you can update 10 plugins at once, versus having to do multiple clicks for each one, and we’re using the new compatibility data from the plugins directory to give you a better idea of whether your plugins are compatible with new releases of WordPress. This should take the fear and hassle out of upgrading.
• Easier video embeds that allow you to just paste a URL on its own line and have it magically turn it into the proper embed code, with Oembed support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv (and more in the next release).

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