The latest version of WordPress, version 2.8 and codename “Baker”, is now out. If you haven’t updated yet, you might want to do so now. One of the biggest features in this version is the ability to install WordPress themes from within the admin dashboard, just like plugins.

Theme authors will also be happy to hear about several new functions/template tags like automatic_feed_links(), body_class(), comments_open(), pings_open(), wp_lost_password_url(). But they should also take note of several deprecated ones.

The complete list of changes are documented in the Codex.