The latest version of WordPress – WordPress 2.0 was released this evening – head on over to the WordPress Download site to get your copy.

Well done to Matt, Donncha, and the rest of the team involved in getting this one out the door.

Major reasons to update to WordPress 2.0? Nice Ajaxy back-end interface (not gone on it myself, the Link window is too slow opening, for instance); Akismet – Matt‘s anti-comment spam plug-in is built-in; and there is a built-in backup facility which will backup your blog db and email it to you! Very nifty.