On June 17, 2010, WordPress Version 3.0, named for Thelonious, was released to the public. 

This site is currently running WordPress 3.0.  I had a little issue on the automatic upgrade and had to do a manual upgrade.  The site was 500 for about 20 minutes, and then all was well after a few quick permission tweaks and one of the plugins missed a SQL update.  Other than those items, no real devasting problems.

I’ve loaded one client so far with the new code and it went very, very well.  No surprises or technical issues. 

Here is the site: http://www.justaskjen.biz

This is the write-up from WordPress.org on the new release along with a very cool video tour.

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WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.)

Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation.

As a user, you will love the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements, bulk updates so you can upgrade 15 plugins at once with a single click, and blah blah blah just watch the video.

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