WordPress 3.0 Released! And I Just Upgraded This Blog Without Any Fuss!
WordPress 3.0 got released just yesterday. And now, at 4.15 in the morning I got some time to upgrade my WordPress and have a look around to this latest update.
The most important change in this version was to merge WordPress MU with normal WordPress. So if you have multiple blogs, you can use WordPress 3.0 to run all your blogs from a single WordPress installation. But just like MU, you can only install blogs in sub-domains under a domain name( like example.anirbanroy.info and blog.anirbanroy.info under my domain name). Most likely you are using different domain names for your WordPress blogs. Then you need to use the WordPress MU Domain Mapping Plugin to map your WordPress blogs under a single installation to separate domain names.
Another very important feature is that WordPress team has released a whole new default theme called Twenty Ten that will support all the features of the current WordPress version. You can use custom menus, backgrounds and page headers with this new theme. And custom means custom! You can practically handcraft your navigation using custom menus. And you can even choose to show different header images for each of your blog post! By the way, don’t worry, Kubrick theme is still there if you are a legacy fan 
Admin dashboard colour has gone lighter and currently as I can see you will get any update notifications like for plugins and themes also in Dashboard settings in the left sidebar. There you can bulk update all those from a single page. Get Shortlink option has been added to the blog post to ease url shortening through WordPress without need of any third-party url-shortening services.
I thought of adding some screenshots of these new features. But when you find a more than decent video from WordPress official site, it is better to just embed it 
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