If you haven’t heard or read about it yet, WordPress 2.2 will be released this coming April the 22nd which is less than a week away now. Many WordPress users are excited and looking forward to this release because of the following features:

New User Features

• Tagging support
• Permalink redirection
• Improved comment editing

Developer / Power User Stuff

• Atom 1.0 support for feeds.
• Multiple format comment feeds, including Atom.
• Switched to jQuery for core JS, which is lighter and faster.
• Atom API support.
• Additional XML-RPC APIs for pages and such.
• phpmailer was integrated for performance and maintainability.

Future additions

• New permalink redirection stuff
• An additional bundled theme?
• Widgets?

But are you?