I’ve been using WordPress 2.5 for about three days now.  Wow.  If WordPress was arguably the best blogging software before, now its light years ahead of anything I’ve seen before.  Between the fine folks at Happy Cog working on the User Interface (UI), the quality of the performance improvements, and the fact that WordPress is so carefully thought about by Automattic, its just a fantastic release.  An amazing release.

I switched to WordPress back when it was version 1.2 from a home-rolled solution that was just getting me by.  WordPress was a big improvement to what I was using then, now its become even more impressive with the improved usability and added functionality to let users add in multi-media functionality and really take their sites from fun to a fun-fest.  If I could add anything to WordPress it would simply be the barbecue that Matt mentions periodically on his posts.

If you haven’t upgraded your installation, you should wait for the final release, backup your data, and then install the latest version.  Its worth every moment of the five second upgrade path.  Then get yourself some ‘Q’.