Not intended for prime time (hence the ‘beta’ designation), WP 2.3 was just released overnight.

Preliminary thoughts: Huge changes to the code since 2.22 (expected of course). I haven’t the time right now to go through the code, but obviously there’s changes ‘aplenty’.

As well, there’s not much different in the Admin section – in fact, the only thing I noticed was an addition to the permalinks section to add an optional ‘tag base’ (tags will be integrated in the next release.

Still, I’m all a-twitter – according to their site some of the new features include:

Some of the features of 2.3 include plugin and core update notification, built-in tags support, faster javascript, and SEO-friendly URL redirection.

I’m looking forward to more details soon…