First off, Bugs:

It has been brought to my attention that this new release of Tumblweed has some issues displaying text characters in various different languages (Japanese characters for example). I had changed the font and it had some adverse effects. I will be fixing this in the new release.

It seems that there is a bug trying to drag and drop images that have their extensions in UPPER CASE (JPG instead of jpg). This will be fixed in the next release.

What to expect in the new release:

The next release (due by Saturday) will mostly be design. The goal will be to mostly mimic the layout of Tumblr more closely so that people are instantly familiar with the Tumblweed.

The dashboard will be its own persistent window. The “create a post” pages will now open in their own windows. This will allow people to work on multiple posts at the same time or view their dashboard while they write a post.

….and a few other goodies.

-David