To my surprise it was earlier than I expected , its the first major release after WordPress 2.5 and brings a cool new admin interface.I installed WordPress 2.7 yesterday on my personal blog Ehsan.pk and have been trying it out and its been working smoothly so far.

WordPress 2.7 Brings loads of new features that WordPress users have been expecting for a long time , first is the new WordPress Admin Dashboard with new drag and drop dashboard elements , QuickPress for posting short handy posts from the dashboard, comment threading , paging and you will also be able to reply to comments directly from the dashboard ! the new WordPress also bring a new Sticky Posts feature.

But i think the most important features of this new WordPress Release are the Single Click Plugin Install and the built-in WordPress Automatic Upgrade Feature so every time  a new WordPress release comes out , you wont have to download and manually upload WordPress files instead you will be able to automatically upgrade your blog to the new version direct from the admin panel .

Download WordPress 2.7 Now ! Also you can checkout how many times the new WordPress 2.7 Release has been downloaded so far by going here.