Our friends over at WordPress are working hard to get to their BlackBerry Blogging app offical release V1.0 . In the meantime, for those of you who have been enjoying the beta, a version 0.9.0.169 beta update has been released and ready for you to download.

Raanan Bar-Cohen posted this update on what’s new for the WordPress for BlackBerry beta application.

We are inching ever so close to the 1.0 release, with today’s beta version 0.9.0.169 update available at http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install

Here is what’s new:

• Based on all the great feedback, we reworked much of the UI layout for the main view, blog view, and media view
• Ability to upload videos from your media library
• New option to set media file properties (filename, caption, title, and position)
• Created a new file browser that resembles the native BlackBerry file browser
• Big improvements in the speed at which you can view and manage comments
• Lots of optimizations for uploading photos and videos using base64 encoding
• Indonesian language support updated thanks to Kate of Pixel Insert
• Improved French language support thanks to Yann Nave of blog.onbebop.net

If you are running one of the latest versions of the app, it should prompt you to upgrade. If not, you can always download the latest version by pointing your mobile browser to: http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install

And always, if you have any issues, please post to the forums so we can effectively track and respond to the issue:  http://blackberry.forums.wordpress.org/

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