For anyone interested in new version of Lightroom, Adobe are offering a preview download. It a Beta version so there are probably a few usage restrictions, but it’s a good opportunity to play around and get a feel for Lightroom. You just need to sign up to Adobe membership to download it.
Just to point out though, especially if you use lightroom 2.x – it does not support catalogue upgrades in the beta versions – so you cannot use it directly in place of lightroom 2 with an existing catalogue – but it does add some nice features, including an interesting flickr plugin tool. The new import process is also nicely done I think.