Yup, a newer version of Wordpress is out. We’re up to 2.2 and it’s only 8 hours old as of writing this post.

This version of WordPress 2.2 gets the name ‘Getz’

So what did ‘Getz’ get?

• WordPress Widgets allow you to easily rearrange and customize areas of your weblog (usually sidebars) with drag-and-drop simplicity. This functionality was originally available as a plugin Widgets are now included by default in the core code, significantly cleaned up, and enabled for the default themes.
• Full Atom support, including updating our Atom feeds to use the 1.0 standard spec and including an implementation of the Atom Publishing API to complement our XML-RPC interface.
• A new Blogger importer that is able to handle the latest version of Google’s Blogger product and seamlessly import posts and comments without any user interaction beyond entering your login.
• Infinite comment stream, meaning that on your Edit Comments page when you delete or spam a comment using the AJAX links under each comment it will bring in another comment in the background so you always have 20 items on the page. (I know it sounds geeky, but try it!)
• We now protect you from activating a plugin or editing a file that will break your blog.
• Core plugin and filter speed optimizations should make everything feel a bit more snappy and lighter on your server.
• We’ve added a hook for WYSIWYG support in a future version of Safari.

This looks like a worthy update, and there was also over 200 bug fixes. 200! This update is really a features update too, not as much as a security update. I wonder if they made it easier to embed OBJECTS in the darn thing yet?

I’ve got to get ready for work and eat my cereal while reading up on my blog favs.

I’ll do the update when I get home to enjoy my beer. I’m off this Thursday and Friday.