The Flow of Consciousness

WordPress 2.5 was released yesterday. The upgrade path is very, very easy for existing 2.3.3 installations–it’s a simple copy-and-upgrade.php procedure.

For those who use Subversion to manage their installations of WordPress, such as myself, the upgrade was even easier:

svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.5

I then ran /wp-admin/upgrade.php and was in business. I had a few plugins to update, but my theme is 2.5-ready and so are the remainder of my plugins.

The new administration panel, of which there are screenshots all over the web, is quite different but much easier to use. It took me a moment to reorient myself and find that the Options tab is now the Settings tab and that the Categories selector for writing posts is now below the entry box instead of beside it.