WordPress 2.1 has not been released yet but it’s nearing completion and the codebase will be released for testing soon.

If you haven’t noticed this already, news was posted two days ago on your WordPress Dashboard. Plugin developers are being reminded to make sure their plugins are compatible with the new release.

Many of the changes in the new version include how Wordpress handle MySQL database tables.

I think this reminder applies to us WordPress users as well. So if you decide to upgrade, be sure your plugins work with the new version. I personally would delay from upgrading if no critical security upgrades are included in this new version, not until most of my important plugins support this version.

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