WordPress 2.7.1 has been released today with 68 ticket fixes.
The coolest thing is that I got to use the automatic upgrade feature that came with WordPress 2.7. No fuss any more. Just click on upgrade (Tools > Upgrade), wait, and you are done. :D Kudos to the WordPress development team. They do warn about backing up your database and files though; just to be in the safer side. And this automatic upgrade thingy is available only in WordPress 2.7 onwards.