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WordPress 2.8.5

Oct 20th, 2009 | By Rex Gradeless | Category: Blogging, Social Media, Web 2.0

WordPress 2.8.5 was released today. For bloggers using WordPress make sure to update to this latest version of WordPress. This ensures the latest security features and add-ons.

If not, you may end up like this.

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  1. V.CNo Gravatar October 21st, 2009 2:01 pm :

    I don’t understand why they released the new version so quickly after the last update 2 months ago.
    I don’t see any changing in this new version. It’s not really necessary to upgrade.

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    Rex GradelessNo Gravatar Reply:
    October 21st, 2009 at 2:12 pm

    With it only taking literally 10 seconds to automatically upgrade (a click of a button) I would disagree. Especially in light of what WordPress says:

    As you know over the past couple of months we have been working on the new features for WordPress 2.9. We have also been working on trying to make WordPress as secure as possible and during this process we have identified a number of security hardening changes that we thought were worth back-porting to the 2.8 branch so as to get these improvements out there and make all your sites as secure as possible.

    The headline changes in this release are:

    ■A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
    ■Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
    ■Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
    ■Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.
    We would recommend that all sites are upgraded to this new version of WordPress to ensure that you have the best available protection.

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