WP Version 2.8 on it’s Way

The WP folks are announcing the latest version of WordPress will be released some time later this month.  Granted, there’s not a lot left in the month and they’re only just beta testing now, but nevertheless they plan on releasing this month.  The new features are exciting to contemplate, but especially helpful to us developers is the new Widget schema:
via Version 2.8 « WordPress Codex.
WP_Widget is a class that abstracts away much of the complexity involved in writing a widget, especially multi-widgets.
They’ve basically created a new class from which all new plugin widgets can be produced.  This is, as noted, [...]