Wordpress 2.6 is out today and it’s another impressive release. Although many speculated this release would simply fix a few bugs and security items, it’s much more.  Upgrade as soon as you can, you’ll be glad you did.

Here’s a list of a few of the changes and features:

• Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits

• Press This!: Post from wherever you are on the web

• Google Gears: Turbo-speed your blogging

• Theme Previews: See it before your audience does

• Word count: Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.

• Image captions: Add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.

• Bulk management of plugins.

• A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.

• Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.

• Plugin update notification bubble.

• Customizable default avatars.

• Upload media when in full-screen mode.

• Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure (off) by default, but you can turn it on easily through the options screen.

• Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security.

• You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.

• Ability to move your wp-config file and wp-content directories to a custom location, for “clean” SVN checkouts.

• Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click.”

• Toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.

• A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.

• Version 2.6 fixes approximately 194 bugs.