You might have noticed a short period of downtime at 8:30 this morning (CET): that’s because I woke up and decided to test on my own blog the soon to be released next version of Subtext.

As usual the upgrade was pretty simple, and just a matter of changing the values that need to be customized in the web.config file (connectionstring, email addresses, and gravatar url), copying all the new directory tree over the old one, and running the upgrade wizard that appears the first time you reload the site after the files have been changed.

And here I am, running on Subtext 2.0.0.22:

And the version on the footer in the admin section of the site:

If you find some problem while browsing the site, please tweet me, comment on this post or contact me.

And when this release is out I’ll try and change a bit my own skin.