I logged on to this blog this morning to check through some comments that needed approving to see a friendly little message saying that WordPress 2.8.5 had been released (this website runs on WordPress). There was even a little link to automatically perform the upgrade. So I did a little bit of reading, and the general concensus seems to be that the automatic upgrade feature works pretty well. I disabled my plugins, as instructed, clicked the upgrade button, and about 20 seconds later the upgrade was done. Wow. That had to be the absolute easiest version upgrade for any piece of software I’ve ever worked with. WordPress continues to impress, I’ve gotta say.