Bloggers Upgrade to Wordpress 2.6

Well, finally i’ve upgraded my Wordpress to the latest stable version of Wordpress which is 2.6!

There is a huge list of of updates and some great new features for bloggers which i must say all bloggers must check out : Click Here to read about the new changes in Wordpress 2.6 and what it has to offer us Bloggers!.

Here is a list of some of the small changes in Wordpress 2.6 - Source (www.wordpress.org)

Word count! Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.
Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.
Bulk management of plugins.
A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.
Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.
Plugin update notification bubble.
Customizable default avatars.
You can now upload media when in full-screen mode.
Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure (off) by default, but you can turn it on easily through the options screen.
Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security.
You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.
Ability to move your wp-config file and wp-content directories to a custom location, for “clean” SVN checkouts.
Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click.”
You can toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.
A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.
Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.
Version 2.6 fixes approximately 194 bugs.

It is said that Wordpress 2.6 is pretty much identical to 2.5 from a Designers point of view - It’s also said that Wordpress version 2.5 won’t be maintained further so its a good idea to Upgrade right away. The upgrade shouldn’t be a problem as i just noticed. It was pretty straight-forward and easy - Took me about 5 mins to finish the upgrade.

P.S:- I finally found where they put the Word Counter - it was on the right side panel just below where you see the Save and Publish buttons.