I updated the version of WordPress running on my local installation this morning to find some interesting changes that, if they remain, could impact on your plugins.

This is the view that awaited me:

Each of the menu items on the left open and close as needed. Templates contains everything that is in the design tab now. Utilities features the new inbox (which seems to include notifications about WordPress and maybe new comments, but it doesn’t do anything yet) and some of the contents of the manage menu.

I’m not quite sure how I feel about it yet as I haven’t had much time to try it out, but there is a limit to how many admin changes people should accept so whatever happens with it lets hope they stick with it for a while. Personally I think the admin should be black (black is the new light blue).