Just upgraded to WordPress 2.5

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I have finally had some time to upgrade to WordPress 2.5 from WordPress 2.3.3. It was very fast, smooth and simple. Wonder why? Because I’m just using the one click install upgrade through Fantastico at my web host account. The upgrade just took only less than 3 minutes. The dashboard looks a lot cleaner and runs a lot faster. Wordpress 2.5 dashboard and layout are totally different from any Wordpress has released before and they have finally put some weight into the layout for ease of use. It took me some time getting used to the new dashboard.

Regarding the issues of the plugins, good thing all my activated plugins worked as expected except for the WP-PostViews Version 1.20 plugin of LesterChan.net. He said that It still has some issues about the automatic update of the plugin using the dashboard as wp-dbmanager is showing as an upgrade for wp-postViews Widget. He warned about it by NOT Using the Automatic Plugin Upgrade in upgrading his plugins.

I have received several feedback that the Automatic Plugin Upgrade feature in WordPress is causing problem with my plugins.
I want to say that ALL my plugins currently will not work with the Automatic Plugin Upgrade feature because there is a problem with the path. It is a little difficult for me to explain it here.
The new version of my plugins that I am going to release on 1st June 2008 will address this issue. In another words, if are using 1.30 or 2.30 beta of my plugins, the problem has been solved.
So in the mean time, DO NOT use the Automatic Plugin Upgrade feature for my plugin.

So far, Wordpress 2.5 looks great and will upgrade the rest of my blogs after this post. If you have a blog and still have not yet upgraded to WordPress 2.5, I highly recommend that you upgrade now.