Ryan Boren announced on his blog yesterday that WordPress 2.6, Beta 1 is now available for download and testing. The features list is nice, and a lot of the things that were missing in the 2.5 release have been included in version 2.6. He also stated that they are aiming for a mid-July release for 2.6 - a full month ahead of the August 2008 scheduled release.
I made the decision to migrate this website over to another hosting account a few weeks ago, and wanted to find a better way to manage the site. I had worked with WordPress recently on a project for a friend, doing the initial install and upgrading it twice.
On a side note, I had "test-driven" WordPress a few times over the years, but it never really quite did what I needed at the time. However, this time around, I was impressed with what WordPress has to offer, so I decided to use it to rebuild the site on the new server. This post details all that went on to make it happen.