Back on August 1st we talked about what features to expect in WordPress 2.7. Though not much had been finalized at the time, the WordPress team had collected a lot of feedback and had a list of features they were looking into adding to WordPress 2.7.
Well, as always the WordPress team has been hard at work and today I noticed a post over at Ryan Boren’s blog that discusses what features have already been built into WordPress 2.7 (not a complete list, but the highlights):
- New admin UI based on the crazyhorse experimental UI branch with new menus and navigation
- New edit post page that allows dragging and dropping of meta boxes. Boxes can be expanded and collapsed as before and now also completely hidden.
- Ability to hide columns on the content index pages
- Inline editing of posts and pages on the content index pages
- Comments XMLRPC API (Who wants comment moderation on the iPhone? Me.)
- Reply to comments from the admin
- Keyboard hot keys for managing comments
- Threaded Comments and new wp_list_comments() API
- Sticky Posts
- Automatic plugin install and integrated plugin browser
- Automatic upgrade of WordPress
- HTTPOnly auth cookies
- New HTTP request API
- A new SSH2 filesystem abstraction for updates and installs over sftp
Some of my personal favorite items were bolded by me. Ryan also notes that they are hoping to have theme update, install, and browsing available by the time WordPress 2.7 comes out.
What feature are you most looking forward to?
Kyle Eslick
Kyle Eslick is WordPress enthusiast who took his passion for WordPress to the next level back in 2007 by launching WPHacks.com as a place to share hacks and review WordPress-related products.
Thanks a lot, this made things much clearer for me :) 
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“New edit post page that allows dragging and dropping of meta boxes. Boxes can be expanded and collapsed as before and now also completely hidden.”
Are you talking about like the ‘custom fields’ ‘page template’ boxes? These will be able to be arrainged?
Rich
Automatic upgrade of WordPress… This is going to be awesome… never gets it done in time before the next is up…
its going to be a great release this time… also with the in-admin plugin viewer…
Those four you’ve highlighted are the exact four things I was hoping for in the next release! Couldn’t care less about the other changes but those were the ones I’ve been watching out for.
Sounds good to me. I would of like to see some kind of database backup within wordpress. I know there are loads of plugins for this but it should of been part of it.
I wish they would incorporate an option for LDAP authentication. I really need to be able to integrate the login with our organization’s central login credentials. I have a plug in to do this, but I hate relying on it.
I’m really excited for the comment XMLRPC, I don’t mind moderating comments but if I could moderate them from an iPhone app, or a notification app on my desktop would be a lot nicer.
When is this update going to be released?
Automatic upgrade would be awesome. Such a pain sometimes via slow FTP