The JSLabs blog posted something yesterday (Jan 21st, 2006) about a new release for one of the most popular PHP blogging engines out there - WordPress. A new release, version 2.1, should be coming today (Jan 22nd, 2006).

Some of the new features that will be included are:

• an auto-save function for the drafts that you're working on using Ajax to send the data to the backend
• because of an effort to keep things compatible, the WordPress team worked to keep most plugins from breaking with the new update
• significant improvements to the rich text editor in the composition pane of the administrative side (improvements to the TinyMCE functionality)

You can get more info in the update from this post on the WordPress site and keep an eye out on their download page for this new update.