A new Movable Type 3.3 is coming for beta test by next week, announced Jay Allen on the Pronet Blog yesterday. Many new exciting features and improvments coming for a better blogging experience. Personaly I'm already happy with the 3.2, and can't wait to try the new version ! In the new edition :

• Simplify creating, updating and reading your blogs

  • Easier organization and retrieval of content with tags and search feeds
  • Smarter defaults: Fewer settings and adjustments that need to be managed
  • Transformer plugins make dramatic customization of Movable Type's UI easy

• Help you manage the success of your blogs in new ways

  • Activity Feeds: Make all common system tasks and notifications available as single feed or individual ones
  • Activity Log improvements: Better data, more useful functions, better filtering and notification about your blogs and community
  • Reduce the amount of learning that administrators or managers need to do

• Help developers and designers do more with less effort

  • Vastly expanded template tag options for common content management tasks
  • Predefined examples for publishing paths and URLs
  • More powerful template tags for displaying the exact content you want to publish
  • Give plugin developers more features "for free" built into the system

• Preserve the investments that you've made in Movable Type

  • Your plugins and templates won't break when you upgrade
  • Improved support for third-party applications for template editing, posting, and reading feeds
  • Simplifying pricing and licensing