Sometime ago, if you ever notice the announcement from WordPress.org, they stated that version 2.4 will be skipped and will be focusing on version 2.5 development. Normally, the WordPress development team will release a new version in every 5 months time. Because of time constraint, 2.4 is skipped and 2.5 is now almost available to the public.

If you refer to the roadmap, WordPress 2.5 was planned to be released on 10th March 2008. However, Matt from the development theme said:

The software is basically done and stable, and could be released today, but we’d like to incorporate feedback from a wider audience before making it available to the general public. After a few days of your feedback we’ll set a final release date.

If you are interested to be a tester of WordPress 2.5 and have feedbacks, you can join the testers mailing list. [...more]

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From time to time, WordPress will release new version with bugs fixed of the previous version. If you are a WordPress.com user, worry not as they will do any necessary updates for you, if needed. But if you host your own WordPress blog in your own domain, you must update your WordPress blog all by yourself, or the so-called “admin” of your blog.

But when?

When you see the above message appears in your Dashboard, you know that there’s a new release. By clicking the “Please update now” hyperlink, you will be directed to the download page. [...more]

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