Wordpress 2.3 beta 1 is out to the public. Some of the features include:

Some of the features of 2.3 include plugin and core update notification, built-in tags support, faster javascript, and SEO-friendly URL redirection

A new direction on the blogging platform incorporating functionalities making user experience supersede their expectation. I will try to update this blog to this version and let us see if we didn’t encounter any problems during install and other plug-ins.

Update: installed on this blog successfully. And testing some features. Basically database upgrade upon install.Tags plugin installed. Incoming links are not listed via technorati but via blogsearch now. Will update you on a separate post about my findings.