Whether it’s the new PressThis interface (used to publish this post 😉 ), character support for things like emoticons, switching themes in the customizer, or the complex query ordering in WP_Query and the other advanced querying classes, WordPress 4.2, “Powell” brings some nice updates to WordPress.
Check out the video above and the original blog post for the release over at the .org blog. Shout out to Drew Jaynes for leading up the release. Looks like he did things the right way once it rolled out to the world.