One of the great things about wordpress is the speed at which it has developed over the last few years from a simple blogging platform to a much more advanced system that can be used as a CMS as well.

Wordpress 2.6 Beta has been released with a few minor updates and functional improvements. Ryan Boren posted a list of improvements including the following to be found in the 2.6 beta Version which is already available for download and beta testing.

• • Post Revisioning
  • Caching of static files with Gears for faster Admin page loads
  • A new and improved image editing dialog that offers lots of control over the images in your posts
  • Theme previewing as seen on WordPress.com
  • Built-in word counting in the post editor
  • The ability to disable remote publishing for the security conscious
  • Drag-and-drop sortable galleries
  • Customizable default avatars
  • Bulk delete, activate, and deactivate for plugins
  • jQuery 1.2.6 with some nice performance improvements
  • jQuery UI 1.5

Matt Mullenweg, Founder of the platform had the following to say about this speedy update from the much hyped 2.5.

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