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WordPress 3.2.1 Released, Maintenance Update

About a week after the push to version 3.2 comes the next WordPress update. Updates that follow quickly after a major release are usually either security or bug related. According to WordPress, version 3.2.1 is a maintenance release that fixes a server incompatibility related to JSON, and a few other issues that came up after the release of WordPress 3.2.

Please note that this is not a security release, which means you have got more time than usual to update your WordPress site to the new version of the blogging script.

WordPress Trac lists all the changes in the new release. If you look at the list you will notice that most are design related. Many fix or improve the Twenty Eleven default theme that ships with WordPress, while others do the same for the new admin interface introduced in WordPress 3.2.

Still no option to change the default font for the admin interface easily, unfortunately.

Updates are makinguse of the new “fast” update mechanism which only updates files that have been changed, instead of all files of a WordPress installation. Users who update via their WordPress Dashboard should notice that the procedure is speedier than before.

Updates are available via Dashboard > Updates. WordPress administrators can download the new version of WordPress from there or update directly if their blog has been configured properly for that.

wordpress 3.2.1

The new version is alternatively available at the official WordPress website.

I have updated six blogs so far and did not notice any problems with the new updating mechanism or the new version of WordPress itself.

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About the Author:Martin Brinkmann is a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News Back in 2005. He is passionate about all things tech and knows the Internet and computers like the back of his hand. You can follow Martin on Facebook or Twitter.

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  1. Ricardus says:

    There were still a lot of plugins which is not compatible for this version. And for those who uses multisites in this 3.2.1 version, they will face a lot of problems too as plugins incompatibility and etc.

  2. bleh says:

    alert(‘pwned (:’)

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