Hur­ray, WordPress 0.72 is now out! As Dou­gal notes there are lots of new things:

* All most all of the con­fig­ur­a­tion options are man­aged through your browser. Edit your con­fig file once and never touch it again!
* A new default style
* Improved Post/Edit inter­face makes it easy to edit/delete recent com­ments
* Improved HTML auto-formatting
* Pass­word pro­tec­ted posts
* New get_links_list() func­tion builds your entire blogroll for you
* Improved Links Man­ager
* Sup­port for blog­ging cli­ents that use the metaWeb­log and Mov­ab­le­Type APIs
* ‘Quick­tags’ gives more intu­it­ive HTML format­ting option when edit­ing posts
* Image upload fea­ture com­pat­ible with more PHP server setups
* RSS feeds for com­ments
* RSS feeds now sup­port “Con­di­tional GET” to help con­serve band­width
* Geo­pos­i­tion sup­port
* Secur­ity fixes
* …and tons of minor little bug fixes…

You can get it from Source­Forge

Do you remem­ber that I was ranked 14^th in a google search for ‘mike’? Well, now I have improved to 12^th place out of approx­im­ately 31 mil­lion. Which is great, but that’s only mov­ing up two places in more than three weeks. I am about to make a change to this blog, which I hope will increase that rank­ing much more rap­idly. We shall see…

Update: I’m num­ber one now!

Unfor­tu­nately my server is being very, very slow at the moment
There must be some­thing wrong with it as it keeps gettting restar­ted (uptime at time of writ­ing is 18 minutes!). I can’t seem to get any­thing out of my host­ing sup­port people at the moment.

Res­ult!
Ver­iSign to Shut Down Site Finder. Com­mon sense pre­vails for a change. At least for now.

Cool! The next ver­sion of WordPress is almost here! 0.72 Release Can­did­ate 1 is now avail­able from the usual place.