Version 4.0 of WordPress, named “Benny” in honor of jazz clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman, is released today. This release brings a smoother writing and management experience we think we all will enjoy.  This release enhances content editors experience on using WordPress as publishing platform. Key features of this release are:

• Explore your uploads in a beautiful, endless grid. A new details preview makes viewing and editing any amount of media in sequence a snap.
• Easily embed content from popular sources like CollegeHumor, YouTube and Twitter
• Smoother writing and editing with an editor that expands to fit your content as you write, and keeps the formatting tools available at your fingertips
• Explore and add plugins from within the WordPress dashboard.