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WordPress 2.7.1

Feb 11

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After 2 months released of WordPress 2.7, 2.7.1 is the first version of 2.7 maintenance release and is now made available to you for download. The 2.7.1 version fixes 68 tickets. Upgrade can be easily performed from 2.7 to 2.7.1 via the Tools -> Upgrade menu. You can also choose to download the WordPress 2.7.1 package and upgrade it manually.

However, you can read the full changeset between 2.7 and 2.7.1 to understand fixes on the previous version. So, do upgrade your WordPress to WordPress 2.7.1 and hopefully I will be upgrading it by this weekend or next week.

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Matt Mullenweg is Twenty Five

Jan 12

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Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress turned 25 today. I would like to take this opportunity to wish him “Happy Birthday” and would like to thank him for the great blogging platform ever made for free to the world. Again, enjoy your 25th birthday Matt.

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WordPress 2.7

Dec 12

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Finally WordPress 2.7 codenamed Coltrane has released with its all new design and ready for download. You will notice that nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and faster in 2.7 than the previous version. You can read more on the new features and WordPress team has prepared a video introduction of version 2.7 using the source link below. Happy upgrading to WordPress 2.7.

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WordPress 2.6.5

Nov 27

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WordPress 2.6.5 is released and it is advisable to upgrade to this release because it fixes one security problem and three bugs. The security issue discovered by Jeremias Reith is an XSS exploit. This security issue is fortunately only affects Apache 2.x which has configured to run as IP-based virtual servers. You can copy wp-includes/feed.php and wp-includes/version.php from the 2.6.5 release package if you just wanted the security fix.

However, this version includes 3 other small fixes in addition to the XSS fix. The fixes are: -

1. prevents accidentally saving post meta information to a revision
2. prevents XML-RPC from fetching incorrect post types
3. adds some user ID sanitization during bulk delete requests

Nevertheless, you can read the full changeset between 2.6.3 and 2.6.5 to understand fixes on the previous version. So, do upgrade your WordPress to avoid the exploit. Lastly, I had upgraded mine before this post.

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WordPress 2.6.3

Oct 24

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WordPress 2.6.3 is released today as of Oct 24, 2008 because of a vulnerability in the Snoopy library. Snoopy is used in WordPress to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. This vulnerability is low risk but it is advisable to perform an upgrade to WordPress 2.6.3 to avoid any exploit happen to your site. You can download WordPress 2.6.3 right now. Also, you can just download the following two files below without downloading the whole release to get the security fix. Just copy them to your WordPress 2.6.2 installation folder. I will be performing the upgrade soon.

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