So far pretty slick. It doesn’t seem to have broken any of the multimedia plugins and I’m enjoying some of the new features – the theme editor that remembers where you were at last save is long overdue!
As per major new release SOP, there’s an announcement post listing all the new features for 2.9 up at the WordPress Dev Blog (video too).
P.S. Heh, I just added a new category for “wordpress” all in lower case – and the category list autocorrected that to the official capitalised “WordPress”! Warms the cockles of my pedantic little heart, that does.
I’ve been on freehosted wordpress.com for a while, what do I need to do to upgrade to self-hosted wordpress?
First you need to find yourself a web host who will provide you with data space on a server. Dreamhost is having a festive season deal that ends today where you get a free domain registration along with heavily discounted hosting – check it out.
ETA: Dreamhost has a one-click install for WordPress. I advise taking the advanced one-click option – you get more control that way.