I was pleasantly surprised to see Automatic Upgrade telling me that there was already a new version of WP coming out (2.7). I have just started playing with the new features but I know at a minimum it has changed the back end in a big way.
Without hitting a single button I am writing this post, it has a new module called “QuickPress” which allows you to type up a new post right in the opening screen and publish it, while also easily being able to modify your themes and check your stats. My stats right now stand at 27 posts, 8 pages, some of which are hidden 
, 12 categories, 102 tags, 215 comments, 113 approved and 102 spam.
2.7 Actually released on the 10th but I am that guy that against better judgement typically holds off upgrading for a couple days to allow WP to iron out any bugs before I stick it on my server and risk my wonderful websites.
If you don’t have automatic upgrade yet you should get it, you can here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/
Automatic upgrade is one of the most popular WP plugins out there, it will guide you through the steps of updating your server and database while backing up your data for you automatically along the way. It also makes it really easy to clean up old upgrade files, etc. to preserve as much space as possible.
Well back to cramming for finals tomorrow for me, I guess I’ll post what I had planned to post on SEO optimization for domain names on Tuesday.
Good Article on 2.7 – I’ve seen the notification on my blog’s back end asking me to upgrade but you and I share the same feeling when it comes to trying out new versions of software – i like to wait for the bugs to be worked out….I didn’t know about the automatic update plugin and wanted to thank you for sharing that resource.