The release date for WordPress 2.5 is March 10! Here’s a sneak-peak of some of the planned features:

• New admin interface — An overhaul of the one we’ve had since version 2.0. The new one looks sort of like a cross between the version 2.0 blue interface and ye olde version 1.5 gray scheme.

• Widget-Based Dashboard — Finally, Dashboard-editing support!

• Built-in avatar support — Using Automattic‘s own Gravatar service, of course.

• Tag Management — Now there will be an admin interface for managing your blog’s tags, presumably similar to the one for managing categories.

• Full Text Feeds — “By popular demand, feeds now include the content after the ‘more’ tag when full text feeds are selected.”

• Automatic Plugin Upgrade — Whoopee! Now if we could just have WordPress update itself automatically too (without the need for extra plugins), we’d be in great shape.

Looking good! A big thanks to all the volunteers who make WordPress possible!