I love this release. I've been using it on my live site for the past month and have been really happy with the changes.

I don't see any annoying bloaty feature creep junk in this release, just gradual improvements and code rewrites to improve what is already there. I wish all releases took this approach.

The new media uploader in particular kicks some serious butt, yet doesn't added any extra functionality. They took what was already there, and made it better. I want more of that :)