Sneak peeks of WordPress 2.6 features

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WordPress 2.6 is set to come out on August 7, 2008, according to the WordPress Trac page. Progress is currently at 7%, clearly a long way from completion.

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A live installation of WP 2.6 is up at Chris Johnston’s demo site. Username is admin, password is demo. If you want to test them on your own server, check out the Nightly Builds through the WP testers mailing list.

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Post revisions
Keep track of a blog post’s revision history.

Identicons, MonsterID, and Wavatar support
Generate special gravatar icons for commenters who have none.

Google Gears support
Add Google Gears functionality for offline blogging.

wp-config.php location can be moved one level higher than WP install

Add sorting to gallery items
Integrate the Reorder Gallery plugin to the 2.6 core.

SHIFT+Click checkbox selection
Select multiple rows of posts, categories, comments, tags, etc. Gmail-style.

Press This bookmarklet
Quick posting bookmarklet that disappeared in 2.5 and will return to 2.6.

More information can be found at the following websites: Quick Online Tips, WordPress Expert, planetOzh, The Blog Herald.

Also visit the Codex page for WordPress 2.6 for further updates.