I caught the post by Ryan via the WordPress Dashboard (I suppose that if I was still hooked into the WP mailing lists I would already have known about this) about SVN commits for version 1.6. I should de-geekify: The developers of WordPress have submitted some changes to the WordPress code repository for the next version of WordPress.
I want to make clear right here two very important things:
First - You should not use this code. It is not finished, and it probably doesn’t work. It will certainly make going back to version 1.5 impossible, and break your web site. Stay away.
If anything, you should use this review as an excuse not to try installing 1.6. Look at the pretty pictures, read the details, comment on the features, and wait.
Second - The features described here do not constitute final features in their full functionality. New features may be added. Features I describe may be removed before final release. Then again, you may get exactly what you see.
A couple of less important things to note: I did not fully test any of this. What you are about to read is the result of about 30 minutes of tinkering and reviewing code differences. You should probably look at the 1.6 Features on Codex for more information about what’s going on. Considering the scale of proposed changes, I don’t expect this version number to be the version number on the release, but that’s conjecture, as is most of what I write here, including this.
Now, on to the good stuff.