In an effort to stay on top of upgrades and security updates in a more timely fashion, I just upgraded to the recently released Wordpress 2.5. If you are running a Wordpress blog I would definitely recommend heading over to the download site and upgrading. As with all my past upgrades, everything went very smoothly. They have definitely done a good job keeping upgrades simple.
The first noticeable change is the major overhaul to the Admin interface. They actually worked with the Happy Cog team to put together a very nice and much cleaner interface. Happy Cog are the folks behind ‘A List Apart’ and ‘An Event Apart’ which I’ve been to a couple of times now. I was previously using a plugin to replace the Admin interface but I may stick with the default now 
- Heavily moderated, SPAM will be dealt with.
I have upgraded to WP 2.5, too.
Now I have massive problems. I’m not able to run the blog on PHP 5.2.5. The dashboard will not be able to load any longer. I know, there is a fix, but this does not help.
With PHP 4.4.7 everything works fine. I have the same installation ( incl. all plugins ) on a test drive running on W2003 with PHP 5.2.5 and everything works fine.
Just my 2ct.
Ulrich Krause
April 6th, 2008
Well, I just keep staying away from WP and it´s fine.
it-bbr
April 24th, 2008