It’s time for another nerd install of the latest WordPress software! This latest release takes care of over 500 tickets submitted to WordPress developers. As always, if you’re up for it then go ahead and finish reading through this post. Take a look at what’s new and then lock yourself in the room and start your upgrade process.

2.9 has been an exciting development cycle, and I must say it has whetted our appetite for 3.0, which is coming next (probably this spring) and will include at the very least the merge of MU with the WordPress core, and a new default theme. We can’t wait to start working on it. But first, some Carmen McRae tunes and a beer. Join us!

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Over the past several weeks, mashable.com, has been taking weekly polls to see how some of the leading online services stack up against their competitors. The latest in the series of polls is WordPress v. TypePad.

Readers were asked to vote between WordPress and TypePad in order to figure out which blogging platform should reign supreme. The results of the face-off though were overwhelming. 3,102 votes were cast, and with 87% of vote, WordPress destroyed Typepad. WordPress garnered 2,714 votes compared to Typepad’s mere 267 votes (9%). 121 of the readers decided to call it a tie.

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