WordPress 2.7 milestone was achieved less than 15 hours ago and went live at 12/11/08 00:12:16 GMT. Following are some interesting statistics for the WordPress 2.7 milestone via WordPress trac.

• Milestone took 150 days since the previous milestone for 2.6 (07/15/08 04:36:11 GMT)
• 33 files deleted, 75 files added, 321 files modified (lots of new stuff)
• 157 files changed in wp-includes, 232 in wp-admin (lots of changes to engine and admin interface)
• 2846 differences (diff blocks)
• 662 tickets closed of which 54 trivial, 63 minor, 470 normal, 50 major, 12 critical and 13 blocker
• 234 general tickets, 152 administration tickets, 88 UI tickets and 39 optimization tickets

Congratulations to the WordPress team. The new admin layout is really cool.