I just upgraded to WordPress 2.5. The dashboard redesign looks great and I really like the additions of help throughout. On the server side, no issues at all.
Now I need to find the time to go through my posts and tag them, and write excerpts–unfortunately, I got out of that habit. I also need to audit for accessibility, checking alt tags and acronym explosion, among other things. And I should probably own up to a new theme…
I guess you and Jeff had a talk. That or your brains operate on the same wavelength.
The beautiful thing about being on WordPress.com vs. hosting my own WP installation is the auto-updating of releases. That at least takes the sting out of not being able to fully customize with javascript calls, widgets, themes, blah blah blah.
Me and Jeff are connected cyborgipathically. That, and the WP dashboard had a nice big banner about the upgrade.
I haven’t rolled out my own upgrade for a while; Dreamhost’s oneclick thingee does it just fine. Since I edited my theme to replace my hacked up code with the proper function calls, I haven’t had to tweak it post-upgrade, either.