WordPress Goes 2.8.5 October 21, 2009
Posted by very in : Announcement, Applications, Apps, Media, News, Resources, Security, Tech, Troubleshooting , add a commentWith all the security problems around previous versions of WordPress platform, it is a great idea to immediately upgrade WP installations to the latest available version. Take that, Scoble!
Anyway, WordPress 2.8.5 is out. Spare no time and upgrade now.
It is available through the built-in upgrade feature or it can be downloaded from WordPress.org.
http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
- 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.
Don’t be a Scoble, upgrade your WordPress now!
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