Good news! WordPress 2.9 hit release candidate status!
WordPress 2.9 brings tons, and tons of new features, here is some;
- MySQL 4.1.2 or greater now required (up from 4.0)
- Trash feature. So your posts, pages, comments and attachments can be restored in-case you accidentally delete them.
- Image editing. So you can re-size the picture within the post.
- Easier video embedding
- First post is now Welcome instead of Hello World!
- Canonical redirects, and Canonical pages support
- Speed improvements in jQuery JS
- Canonical post thumbnails
- Tons, and TONS more.
Who knows it could be out by the end of the week, or the end of the year! 
I’m waiting for the final released. Look forward for speed improvement. Thanks.
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Glad its just a few more weeks
I also hope to get the final one and ideally it should be released before New Year event. Just a note that you should use math antispam and recaptcha is not friendly like me who is sort sighted. Thanks
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Click the audio button to get a audio question. Ya before 2010 hopefully.
Looking forward for it.
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