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As I mentioned in a previous post, I had slight reservations about upgrading this site to WordPress 2.6, due to the fact that some people had problems with non-standard permalinks. I even encountered this problem myself, when upgrading a blog that I run on a VirtualBox test server.

However, it was just past 12 a.m., and felt like throwing caution to the wind, and therefore upgraded. At first I used my web host’s “simple scripts” feature to try to upgrade the site. After all, this is what I used to do the initial installation, as well as the upgrade to 2.5.1. Bit mistake!

After getting a rather uninformative error message from simple scripts, I bit the bullet and did the manual upgrade (the way God intended!). Five minutes latter, I was up and running.

I’ve only been using 2.6 on crashsystems.net for the past few minutes, but I already like it.

I’m both surprised and exited to see that WordPress 2.6 has been released almost a month ahead of time. By far the feature I’m most exited about is post revisions, which gives WP content wiki like revision history. This should be very useful for multi-author blogs and sites. Another interesting feature is integrating Google Gears into the admin interface, which results in faster page loading.

One thing that should be interesting to see is how many plugins will need to be updated to run on 2.6, and how long this update will take. I’ll probably upgrade tomorrow, but I hope this doesn’t break compatibility with my beloved plugins!