The great guys at WordPress have announced today that WordPress 2.5 has been released.  This features a huge number of upgrades and improvements, particularly to the administration side of the blogging platform.  These include:

Cleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard
Dashboard Widgets
Search posts and pages
Tag management
Concurrent editing protection
Few-click plugin upgrades
Friendlier visual post editor
Built-in galleries

The improvements are to numerous [...]