Plenty of other folks have already announced that the Subtext 2.0 bits finally dropped this past Sunday afternoon, hot off the CI server. And by finally, I mean – over a year after the last official release, and four months after we said it was just around the corner.

Good things come to those who wait

At least that’s what the Heinz company says. Or maybe they just had a brilliant marketing department.

Anyhow, Simone Chiaretta and several other folks have already hit the release highlights, so I’ll just steal their summaries:

• Top notch support for Windows Live Writer thanks to some patches and check-ins from Tim Heuer
• New CSS-based admin design that makes better use of apace
• Support for mobile skins (and a default mobile skin if your favorite skin doesn’t have mobile support built in)
• Streamlined installation Process
• Support for Enclosures
• CSS and JS optimizations
• Setting a date in the future for publishing posts
• Login to your blog using OpenID, as well as use your blog as an OpenID Delegate

Ch-ch-cha-changes!

As you can see, the new bits are packed with a metric crap-load of bug fixes, new features, and patches. And yes, metric-crap load is a technical term and a real unit of measure… or not, whatever.

But hey, you don’t have to take my word for it. You can get a full list of the changes here:

• Bug Fixes
• Delivered Feature Requests
• Accepted Patches

Go get you some

Oh yeah, and I should probably link to the new bits: DOWNLOAD