On the heels of the previous mention of the free Serendipity blog hosting, there comes an announcement from one of the other leaders in PHP-based weblog tools - WordPress and their latest version, version 1.5 - Strayhorn.

WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. We hope by focusing on user experience and web standards we can create a tool different from anything else out there.

So, whether you're a current user looking to upgrade or just a new user searching for a quality blogging tool, you might want to look into WordPress as an option...