Posted by Ryan Boren on February 10th, 2009 | Categorized as Uncategorized
2.7.1, the first 2.7 maintenance release, is now available. 2.7.1 fixes 68 tickets. You can automatically upgrade from 2.7 to 2.7.1 via the Tools → Upgrade menu, or you can download the package and upgrade manually.
You may have noticed that we went much longer than usual to release this .1 update. We’re very proud of [...]
Posted by Ryan Boren on December 1st, 2008 | Categorized as Uncategorized
With the release of RC1, we’re in the final leg of development before the release of 2.7. 280 commits since beta 3 have polished the new admin UI (including new menu icons created by the winners of our icon design contest) and fixed all known blocker bugs.
We think RC1 is ready for everyone to try [...]
Posted by Ryan Boren on November 25th, 2008 | Categorized as Uncategorized
WordPress 2.6.5 is immediately available and fixes one security problem and three bugs. We recommend everyone upgrade to this release.
The security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. If you are interested only in the security fix, copy wp-includes/feed.php and wp-includes/version.php from [...]
Posted by Ryan Boren on November 6th, 2008 | Categorized as Uncategorized
WordPress 2.7 Beta 2 is ready. Here is a quick rundown of changes since beta 1.
The Upload button didn’t always show. Fixed.
JS on the Dashboard broke for blogs with no comments, causing several UI elements to “freeze”. Fixed.
Recent Drafts Dashboard module didn’t show correct times. Fixed.
Various Autosave fixes.
Redirect after deleting a page from the editor [...]