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Automattic, the company behind Wordpress, has now released wordpress 2.7 beta 1 to the general public. The new release includes updated design of the administration dashboard. The folks at Automattic would be adding new icons to most sections to wordpress to make things more livelier. The current version works seamlessly with Firefox and Safari, however don’t expect the same from other browsers.

Automattic expects to ship Wordpress 2.7 by the end of November:

Speaking of the final release, it will not be available on November 10th as originally scheduled.  We are two weeks behind schedule at the moment.  We need a little more time to finish the visual design, do a round of user testing against that finished design, and do a proper round of public beta testing. Our plan is to keep working as if Nov. 10 is still the release date.  However, instead of releasing the final 2.7 on the 10th, we will make a release candidate available instead.  The release candidate is intended to be a high-quality, almost-finished release that we are comfortable recommending for broad use.  After Nov. 10, the focus will be on fixing high impact bugs turned up by those of you testing the release candidate. I suspect 2.7 will be ready for final release by the end of November.  A specific date will be set as we progress through the public beta cycle and get a feel for how solid the release is.

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