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Im May, we had posted about “Speed Up!” WordPress 2.6 with Google Gears. It’s now official, that Google Gears is added to the next version 2.6, which is due out in mid-July 2008 release, and with it comes even more new features for blog administrators.

Ryan has summarized the features of Beta 1 of WordPress 2.6:

• Post Revisioning
• A “Press This” bookmarklet for tumblelog style quick posting
• Caching of static files with Google Gears for faster Admin page loads
• A new and improved image editing dialog that offers lots of control over the images in your posts
• Theme previewing as seen on WordPress.com
• Built-in word counting in the post editor
• The ability to disable remote publishing for the security conscious
• XML-RPC API for changing blog options
• Hierarchy-aware paging in the Manage Pages and Manage Categories admin pages.
• The ability to relocate your content directory
• The ability to move wp-config.php out of your web root
• Bulk delete, activate, and deactivate for plugins
• and more….

Download: WordPress 2.6 Beta 1