Ryan Boren announced the WordPress 2.8 Candidate 1 was released, you can download it and report any bug to them. And the complete version will be released on Wednesday the 10th June, 2 days later. Have you tested the Candidate 1 already?

The upcoming highlights including:

• New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API
• Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
• Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin
• Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns
• Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options
• Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment
• Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module
• Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation