Yesterday, wordpress development has just announce the availability of Wordpress 2.7 RC1. This release should have brought the new icon from the Icon Design Contest, which was held last month. This release candidate are should be please many of the wordpress fans out there, since the 2.7 version is surely something that was worth waiting for.

I have just finished upgrading my 2.6.5 version of wordpress to this RC version in my other blog. And it looks like stable enough to be use in a live website. But of course, with so many changes in their administration screen layout some few plugins definitely will gonna need an update to be used with this release. The changes to the plugin, is should be quite minimal I believe. In my other blog the plugin that I have found need slight modification is All in One SEO Pack. Well it’s just a cosmetic modification, their input box is not blend correctly with the new 2.7 version editor screen layout. Some plugins that add button to the editor toolbar should also need to be checked.

In my other blog, when editing is made some times it throw an error of not finding the edited page. I’m not sure if it was a bug in this version, or is it because my connection to the server which was a bit unstable at the time I test the functionality. The upgrade process from 2.6.5 version to this RC1 version is run quite well, no problem arised in the process. But be carefull when you want to do the upgrade your own blog. Don’t forget to always do a full backup of your blog before you do it. It’s better to be safe than sorry.