WordPress (2003-2010) has been released his 3rd generation that has been claimed that it will be the most promising for all new features include:
- New default theme (Twenty Ten) – a flexible theme, that you can give more customize to header, background or even menu
- Merged feature of WordPress MU & WordPress together
- Custom Menu management has been added with The Awesome Custom Woo Navigation with drag and drop ordering etc.
- Available also the custom post type feature that we can manage WordPress site as a fully CMS system
- New standard API for theme development
I think this video has more explains for all new features of WordPress 3.0:
https://videopress.com/v/wp-content/plugins/video/flvplayer.swf?ver=1.21
I found this blog has been summarize the features also.
As we can see, the WordPress 3.0 download counter is increasing very fast since it’s release from 17th June.