WordPress 2.6 “Tyner” is now available and I’ve upgraded! The roadmap had once said it’d be out in August 2008, but guess what — here it is!

Here are some of the awesome new features that come out of the box with WordPress 2.6, new since 2.5:

  • Post versioning enables you to view or compare, diff-style, past edits of a post, something present in applications like MediaWiki and Trac, which is really cool. Now you can feel like you’re working with Subversion!
  • Press This was once a neat little feature in the form of a bookmarklet that unfortunately didn’t get much attention. Now you launch a small interface from the same bookmarklet so you can blog from anywhere on your web browser.
  • Turbo harnesses the power of Gears to store assets like images and the like from your WordPress admin panel to your computer, to speed up loading.
  • Theme Previews, having been around for WordPress.com blogs for quite a while (even before WordPress 2.5!), now allows you even on your self-hosted blog to preview your themes in the Design part of your admin panel, so you can pick one before switching to it.

So there have been rumors of an easter egg floating around WordPress 2.6… and yup, there sure is!

All you have to do is to edit a post, then go back to editing it and compare the same revision with itself, and watch what happens…

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