Quick Update on the WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate

With today’s announcement of the first release candidate of WordPress 2.5, anticipation is starting to build around the WordPress community.  The road map shows March 24th as the release date, and rumors are flying that we will have WordPress 2.5 prior to WordCamp Dallas on March 29th and 30th.    In the meantime, plugin authors can get a jump on testing their plugins to make sure everything is working properly with the update, then get a fix in place if needed.

Now that you have the good news, there is also some bad news.  I did run across one quick note about the release candidate that I wanted to share with everyone.   Apparently there are known problems with the automatic plugin upgrade feature, so you’ll want to avoid using the automatic plugin upgrade feature until a fix is in place.  Guess I’m glad they went with a release candidate to start!