Its hardly been over three weeks since Wordpress 2.6 was released and we already have development underway for Wordpress 2.7. The previous two wordpress releases(WP 2.5 and 2.6) have both been feature packed releases that every wordpress blogger can testify to. And this trend of new features looks to be continued with Wordpress 2.7. Here are some of the new features planned for Wordpress 2.7:

• Comments API - This will enable plugin developers to really handle comments in any way that they desire. Developers should love this new addition
• Keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation - aims to fasten the process of comment moderation through keyboard shortcuts.
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These last couple of days I was working extensively with the local wordpress installation on my computer. I had been tweaking the theme and several other things. Between all this tweaking, I had to install different versions of wordpress. I had been running wordpress 2.6 by default and had to downgrade to 2.3 to check something out. I went upon doing this downgrade as you would normally upgrade an installation of wordpress. I first deleted all wordpress files and copied over files from wordpress 2.3. I then ran the website and upgraded database, and tried to log in to my admin account. To my surprise, my password didn’t work no matter how many times and how many variations I tried. I was locked out of my own account on my own computer!
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Well, we were expecting Wordpress 2.6 anyday after Monday and today it has been officially released. This new version brings in a ton of new features and security updates. One of the new features is going to be Posts Revision, which will save a history of edits made to each post. So if you accidentally erase a paragraph from your post while editing, no worries, you can easily revert back to the older version! It will also be able to store a history of who changed what and when, just like on wikipedia articles! I think this will be a fantastic addition as it will certainly be needed by many bloggers at one time or another.

Wordpress 2.6 will also have support for Google Gears. Below is a list of new features in this release:

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Wordpress 2.6 Beta 2 has just been released to the public. This release fixes bugs that were encountered in wordpress 2.6 beta 1. No new features have been added in this release. The total list of features planned for Wordpress 2.6 have already been released in beta 1. For a list of those features, click here.

Here are the changes made in Wordpress 2.6 Beta 2:

• Insert image and edit image fixes
• SSL fixes
• i18n fixes
• Lots of new inline documentation
• Improved tag auto-suggest
• TinyMCE 3.1.1 with Opera 9.5 and Safari fixes, proper align = center removal, and improved embeds support
• jQuery UI 1.5.1

The final Wordpress 2.6 version is due to be released this coming Monday.