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The fine folks at pMachines have released an updated version of ExpressionEngine.  Compared to the previous releases this one is pretty minor in scale as far as changes/updates go.

The main new features they added are:
* A stand-alone version of the “publish” form, so weblog entries can be submitted from any page.
* An improved plugin manager. Plugins can now be browsed and installed directly from your control panel. Big thanks to Chris Ruzin for this feature.
* URL mapping for people who migrated from pMachine Pro, allowing pM style links to point to their new EE location.
* Redesigned template installer which allows new template designs to be incorporated more easily.

I’m downloading the new version right now.  As usual I’ll be testing this release out for about a week on my private test server before I install it on the live site.  No offense to pMachines but every time they’ve done a new release they end up putting out bugfix releases within a few days.  So, I figure it’s best to just play with the new version for a while in the safety of a test environment while I wait for the bugfixes to come out.  It seems rather silly to install the new version on the live site only to install the bugfix version a few days later.  I’m out in the boonies and only have dialup!  Doing major uploading like when you install a new version of EE takes a long time for me.  Once a week is my limit.