When WordPress 2.7 was released the next version of WordPress 2.8 development was announced. It’s now about 5 month 
when new version development was announced. WordPress has released WordPress 2.8 Beat 1 and available to download for testing purpose.
Whenever there is a new version of WordPress it comes with lot of great features. This time too there are many new features and many bugs are fixed.
Some of the new features
New Theme Installer routines
TinyMCE 3.2.3
Improved Widget user interface
Don’t ask for confirmation when marking a comment as spam
Improve installer to help people entering wrong email addresses
install a plugin in .zip format
Permalink editor changes and fix for pages
Improved database performance
Check full list of new features
Download WordPress 2.8 Beta
