WordPress的更新速度实在是让人叹为观止,2.5版我还没来的及用,这不WordPress 2.6 Beta 1放出来了,更新的速度也快了,快的我自己都觉得有点不能接受了,看样子过段时间我可真得大幅度更新下我的BLOG版本了.

本次BETA版暂时未在官方首页直接发布,不过还是可以下载的到的,这里提供下载地址,有兴趣的可以试下:
http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.6-beta1.zip

关于本次更新的一些功能上的说明,有两个最大的特点就是增加了Post Revisions功能和支持Google的Gears,我引用以下一篇国外的WP友的报道,这里就不翻译了,有点麻烦,图个省事,哈哈:

The two biggest new features are Post Revisions, which saves a history of edits made to each post, and support for Gears, which greatly speeds up working with the admin screens.

Other changes of note:

• Support for the XML-RPC and Atom client APIs is turned off by default now. If you use an external client for posting, you’ll need to specifically turn these features on, under Settings/Writing.
• Impoved support for SSL access to the admin screens.
• When you are selecting themes, you now get to view a preview of how your site looks with the new theme before commiting to the change.
• The return of the “Press This” bookmarklet (find it in the sidebar of the Write page). Drag the link to your browser’s bookmarks toolbar, and use it to quickly post about sites you visit.
• More avatar options. The Gravatar service now supports displaying MonsterID, Wavatar, or Identicon icons in place of the default icon for those who don’t have a personalized Gravatar. These options are selectable under Settings/Discussion. My Easy Gravatars plugin can support this as well, though I’ll probably update it to use the new built-in settings, rather than its own. I’ll write that up later.
• Improved plugin management. Active and inactive plugins are now listed separately. You now have the abiliity to “bulk activate” or “bulk deactivate” plugins. You can also delete unused plugins at the click of a button. (Now all we need is the ability to search and install plugins from the  Extend directory right from our admin! Maybe in 2.7?)

And there are other assorted improvements, such as updates to the latest jQuery and jQuery UI libraries, updates to the latest TinyMCE editor, improvements to Page and Category management, and as always, general performance enhancements.