The WordPress developers have released version 2.8.5 of their popular blogging software. The version is considered a security upgrade and therefor mandatory for all WordPress blog owners who run their own WordPress blog (but not those running a blog at WordPress.com). The developers are calling this released a hardening release as it tightens WordPress security [...]

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A computer worm is currently in the wild that is attacking unpatched WordPress blogs. Unpatched meaning blogs that have not been updated by their administrators to the latest version of the popular blogging software. The worm exploits a security vulnerability in older versions of WordPress to create a user account, make some changes to the [...]

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The WordPress developers have released version 2.8.3 of the popular blogging script. The update is a security update and it is therefor recommended to update the WordPress installation immediately to protect the data and web server. Upgrades are as usually available directly from within the WordPress admin interface or by downloading the new version of [...]

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A new version of the popular blogging platform WordPress was released just a few minutes ago. It is an unexpected upgrade considering that the last WordPress update was less than two weeks ago. The new update fixes a security vulnerability that affects all but the latest version of WordPress. The XSS vulnerability could be used [...]

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A new version of the popular blogging script WordPress has been released by the developers yesterday. WordPress 2.8 is the latest stable release of the blogging platform and webmasters are encouraged to upgrade their blogs as soon as possible to benefit from the changes in that version. The update adds a multitude of features and [...]

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Seems the WordPress developers have finally released a new version of the free blog software. The update to WordPress 2.7.1 (from 2.7) is a maintenance release which fixes 68 tickets. It is therefor a recommended upgrade and should be applied by WordPress webmasters as soon as possible. The WordPress tracker which is mentioned on the [...]

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The WordPress team has published version 2.7 of WordPress yesterday. The first thing that users will notice is the new administration interface which was completely redone to optimize processes. The development team claims that nearly every task in WordPress 2.7 will take fewer clicks than it took in previous versions of the blogging platform. The [...]

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The WordPress development team has released version 2.6.5 of the blogging plattform for download. The release fixes one security update and three bugs and can be downloaded from the official WordPress website. Alternatively only the files wp-includes/feed.php and wp-includes/version.php can be copied from the new release over the old files to update the blog. The [...]

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A new version of WordPress has been released today and I’m currently in the process of updating all of my WordPress blogs with the new version. That’s always a lot of work because I tend to prefer a manual update and not the automatic option that was implemented into WordPress a while ago. Over 60 [...]

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