For sure now, ‘Please update now‘ greets you once you logged in into the control panel. Yup, WordPress 2.7 is finally here, for WordPress-self hosted blog.

Haven’t run the update just yet (the 3G internet connection is killing me), but I got a chance to view the glimpse of WordPress 2.7 via video posted.

The major update is obviously the new dashboard/control panel which undergone extensive makeover as well as the functionality. It is ‘extremely’ customizable, and feature rich. Not to forget the inner beauty, resulted from the new icon and new navigation menu, now relocated to the left bar.

Honestly to me, the ‘mother of all update‘ on this release is the built-in upgrade feature – which made possible the single-click, update-all. Gone the day, when update is a real pain in the a*s!!

Admittedly, that I’m not a very good WordPress user, so to get a better picture, you better off reading the Wordress 2.7′s official announcement .

If you have some doubt over compatibility of the plugin and theme with this new release, Lorella has posted some tips you can refer to.