Our net­work is once again run­ning the lat­est ver­sion of WordPress. The upgrade (knock on wood) was unevent­ful and pain­less as is per usual with WordPress. The revised Admin Toolbar and the new blue and white Pointer Tips are the first thing that will jump out at blog admins and editors.

Pointer Tips could prove to be use­ful, even for vet­eran users; the evo­lu­tion of the WordPress inter­face and the addi­tion of new fea­tures has sped up con­sid­er­ably over the past year. When a user dis­misses Pointer Tips, they stay hid­den (their sta­tus changes in the data­base for that user).

The new JavaScript-based, drag-and-drop Media Uploader is a wel­come change over the past Flash-based version.

If you are logged in, check out the rest of the new fea­tures on the “About WordPress” page under the WordPress icon on the left side of the Admin Toolbar. Feel free to leave a com­ment after this post if you like any of the new fea­tures, or if some­thing really annoys you about the interface.