The waiting is over after almost 2,000 committed lines of code, with more than 820 issues fixed and more than 180 people from all over the world who helped to make this possible. Today WordPress 3.1, code name “Reinhardt”, has been released and with tons of new features that makes this WordPress release one of the best releases ever! You can download the new version from WordPress.org or you can just simply go to the dashboard and click on Please update now link.

In this new version, WordPress brings a ton of new features and a big overhaul in the post writing user interface, which is going to make publishing new posts simpler and less intimidating for new WordPress users; with a streamlined writing interface, a super fast redesigned linking workflow that will speed up linking to posts and pages, a new admin bar that will make the navigation around WordPress back-end a lot faster, and a refreshed blue admin scheme that it is available for selection in your personal options.

For theme developers and expert users there is a new Post Format which makes it easy and more flexible to work with WordPress theme layouts. Plus new CMS capabilities such as archive pages for custom content types, a new import and export system, the ability to do advanced taxonomy and custom fields queries and a better Network Admin.

Thank you WordPress developer team for all the time and effort that you guys put into this new release!

Now the only thing left to do is for you to download and install this new version, start playing and learning, but more importantly just have a good time blogging.

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