Picasa 2.5 officially acknowledged

About a week after Picasa 2.5 started to roll out, Google finally got around to announcing it via a post to the Official Google blog titled Picasa goes online, gets new features too.

The post, by Michael Herf, this time simply described as a Picasa Engineer, talks about the 80,000 photos he has in Picasa, and how the new online albums feature now allows him to share these with the world - or just with friends and family. It also mentions the new folder layout view, the ability to save changes to photos (in an undoable manner), links with Google Earth, movies, screensaver, and button customization.

The main Picasa download page is indeed serving up the latest version now (build 32.94), but unfortunately many of the other download routes are still serving up back level versions (such as via the link on Picasa Web Albums, the link on Joga.com, and the version that is packaged for Linux).