Keith Dsouza writes about some of the planned features for the WordPress 2.7 release. He mentions several features for which high quality plugins already exist, which is encouraging to see as it means the WordPress developers are paying attention to the extensive plugin community and working to roll some of the highest demand functionality into the WordPress core.
Two of the possible new features that caught my attention are automatic upgrades and batch post editing.
WordPress upgrades can be a painful process so building this into the core product could be a huge step forward in enabling WordPress users to keep their sites up to date for all of the critical security fixes. The WordPress Automatic Upgrades Plugin is the best upgrade method going at the moment and I hope the WordPress team makes the builtin functionality as easy to use.
Batch post editing is something that Keith only hinted at, but my hope is it will allow such functionality as creating a new tag or category and adding multiple existing posts to it in one action. This would make it much easier to update historical posts with this kind of information without editing each one individually or having to write custom SQL code.
You can read a few more hints about what is coming over at the WordPress Codex.
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