Just upgraded from WordPress 1.6 alpha to 1.62.0 beta. Yep, WordPress, like the rest of the Web, has gone 2.0!
The alpha did have some odd management issues that seem to be gone, though I’m still not receiving e-mail notifications of new comments. The beta includes two new plugins, Akismet and WordPress Database Backup plugins. Akismet found 65 spam comments that I didn’t see before! There’s also an import option for Blogger (~cough~tara~cough~) and RSS, and buried in the code imports for MT, TextPattern, LJ, GreyMatter and B2.
Unfortunately, the Flickr image browser is no longer working … I liked that feature! And the WYSIWYG editor seems to eat up paragraphs once in a while, or at least I don’t remember it acting out that way before. I also noticed the same problem with WordPress.com yesterday. But overall a 10 minute upgrade, definitely worth doing.