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 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.

I’ve got 4 blogs currently using WordPress 2.5.1 and I’ve yet to test any beta releases or RC1 of WordPress 2.6 on any of my blogs. When 2.6 hit the mirrors, be it tonight or at a later date, I’ll try it out in one of my blogs to see if I should upgrade the rest to 2.6.

For me, the new features in WordPress 2.6 worth checking out is image captioning, theme preview and an improved media uploader.