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.