WordPress is a state-of-the-art, semantic, personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, Web standards, and usability. It was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architected personal publishing system. While primarily geared towards functioning as a Weblog, WordPress is also a flexible CMS capable of managing many types of Web sites. In addition to the basic blog functions, it also has an integrated link manager (e.g. for blogrolls), file attachments, XFN support, support for stand-alone pages, Atom and RSS feeds for both content and comments, blogging API support (Atom Publishing Protocol, Blogger, MetaWeblog, and Movable Type APIs), spam blocking features, advanced cruft-free URL generation, a flexible theme system, and an advanced plugin API. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
In addition to minor bugfixes and performance improvements, this release contains a security fix. All users are urged to upgrade. There are performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages, and better performance for those who have many categories. There are Media Uploader fixes, an upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7, Widget Administration fixes, various usability improvements, and layout fixes for IE.

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