Drupal 4.7 Looks REALLY Good

Drupal 4.7 RC1 is released and you're looking at it! The upgrade from 4.6 couldn't have been easier--delete the old files, insert the new files, run an upgrade script, update modules and done. It took me about 15 minutes on this site. I have a few other Drupal sites that use modules that haven't been released for 4.7 yet so I'll probably wait on those.

What's new in Drupal 4.7? Here are the changes from the changelog that I thought were most interesting (my comments in red)

• added free tagging support. woohoo!
• added a site-wide contact form.
• added the PHPTemplate theme engine
• reworked the 'request new password' functionality.
• reworked the node and comment edit forms These are much nicer now!
• made it easy to add nodes to the navigation menu.
• added site 'offline for maintenance' feature.
• added support for auto-complete forms (AJAX).
• added support for collapsible page sections (JS).
• added support for resizable text fields (JS).
• improved file upload functionality (AJAX).
• made it possible to alter, extend or theme forms.
• added support for "mass comment operations" to ease repetitive tasks.
• reworked the revision functionality.
• added a block to display author information along with posts.
• added support for private profile fields.
• added the ability to track page generation times.
• made it possible to block certain IPs/hostnames.
• added support for theme-specific block regions.
• made the aggregator module parse Atom feeds.
• made the aggregator generate RSS feeds.
• added RSS feed settings.
• added 'loose caching' option for high-traffic sites.
• improved performance of path aliasing.
• made indexer smarter and more robust. Nice. This needed major work.
• added advanced search operators (e.g. phrase, node type, ...).
• added customizable result ranking.

Over all a huge release with alot of features that have been much anticipated. I'd say that this release probably should have been Drupal 5.