WordPress 3.0 released

Every avid blogger out there has been waiting for this day and it is finally here, the release of WordPress 3.0 aka Thelonious.

Like announced on the official WordPress blog, arm your Vuvuzelas and go and download WordPress 3.0 or alternatively you can upgrade it through your WordPress dashboard.

It took half a year of work by over 200 contributers to get WordPress 3.0 ready for release and what a release this is.

Some of the new major features included in the release of WordPress 3.0 is a brand new default theme called Twenty Ten, there is also brand new APIs available to theme developers that will allow them with more customisation options with regards to backgrounds, menus, headers, short links, post types and taxonomies.

No need to install a separate WordPress installation anymore to make use of a Multi User blog interface, the new WordPress 3.0 incorporates single and MU blogs from just one WordPress installation.

For more information about the release of WordPress 3.0 check out the official WordPress blog.

WordPress 2.8.3 Security Release

Unfortunately, with the release of 2.8.2 the guys at WordPress missed some places when fixing the privilege escalation issues for 2.8.1.  Luckily, the entire WordPress community has their backs.  Several folks in the community dug deeper and discovered areas that were overlooked.  With their help, the remaining issues are fixed in 2.8.3.  Since this is a security release, upgrading is highly recommended.  Download 2.8.3, or upgrade automatically from your admin dashboard.

WordPress 2.8.1 Released

Just upgraded all my blog sites to WordPress 2.8.1, no issues that I can see. All plugins working 100%

WordPress 2.8.1 fixes many bugs and tightens security for plugin administration pages. Core Security Technologies notified us that admin pages added by certain plugins could be viewed by unprivileged users, resulting in information being leaked. Not all plugins are vulnerable to this problem, but we advise upgrading to 2.8.1 to be safe.

What else is new since 2.8?  Read through the highlights below, or  view all changes since 2.8

  • Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won’t have to change.
  • Dashboard memory usage is reduced.  Some people were running out of memory when loading the dashboard, resulting in an incomplete page.
  • The automatic upgrade no longer accidentally deletes files when cleaning up from a failed upgrade.
  • A problem where the rich text editor wasn’t being loaded due to compression issues has been worked around.
  • Extra security has been put in place to better protect you from plugins that do not do explicit permission checks.
  • Translation of role names fixed.
  • wp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user specified menu order rather than the page title.
  • Upload error messages are now correctly reported.
  • Autosave error experienced by some IE users is fixed.
  • Styling glitch in the plugin editor fixed.
  • SSH2 filesystem requirements updated.
  • Switched back to curl as the default transport.
  • Updated the translation library to avoid a problem with mbstring.func_overload.
  • Stricter inline style sanitization.
  • Stricter menu security.
  • Disabled code highlighting due to browser incompatibilities.
  • RTL layout fixes.
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