WordPress 2.9 is out with a slew of updates enhancements and some really cool new features. Since WordPress made the upgrade process as easy as clicking a link I’ve been in the habit of going through all of my blogs and upgraing them when a new release comes out. New releases almost always have security and bug fixes so it’s important to keep up to date. Anyways, here are some of the cool new features:

• Trash – instead of posts, images etc being deleted they now go into ‘trash’ and are automatically removed after 30 days. That’s an excellent feature if you have an itchy mouse finger!
• Easier video embedding – support has been added for many of the large video hosting services such as Youtube, Scribd,PhotoBucket, Blip.tv etc…
• Batch Plugin Update – instead of having to update each plugin individually you can now update them all with one click.
• Built in image editor – this is especially cool and allows you to flip, rotate and scale your images right there in WordPress!

So there you have it…some very nice additions as well as a bunch of bugfixes and other minor updates.