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Upgrading all my sites to WordPress 2.6.1

WordPress 2.6.1 is out. A maintenance release but for many including myself, it’s the time to move up to 2.6 altogether.

As I look back the past few weeks of testing 2.6 on several blogs, I’m delighted to say it’s been a wonderfully smooth experience. Unlike the upgrade to WordPress 2.5, my sites did not experience much trouble when using WordPress 2.6. I deployed 2.6 on several websites and found it was a breeze to work with. It played well with my themes too. Plugins did not break down. Tonight I’ll be upgrading all my sites running WordPress to 2.6.1 and I hope I won’t run into any problems.

WordPress 2.6 releasing today?

WordPress has given the first planned release date of 7th July 2008 the miss and aiming for the next which is 14th July 2008. There’s a couple of hours left to see if it manage to keep its deadline if WordPress gets released tonight.

WordPress Release Candidate 1 has just been released two days ago so I really doubt they’ll make it today. Of course, I’d be glad to be proven wrong this time.

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