The new version 2.3 of the blog script Wordpress has been released about 12 hours ago and lots of webmasters are starting to prepare their blogs to upgrade their version to the recent one. There is however one difficulty with this new release which will affect a lot of webmasters who try to upgrade their blog.
Wordpress 2.2.2. released
The Wordpress development team is releasing new versions of their popular blogging script faster and faster. It seems that I’m doing nothing else than to update my blog with the latest version of Wordpress. While not all updates are required some are important to apply as soon as they are released to close security vulnerabilities that could lead to a compromised blog if a hacker detects that your blog is not running the latest version.
Scan your Wordpress blog for vulnerabilities
Site owners should always be aware of the possibility that their blog gets compromised. This can be because of an old version of Wordpress that is installed or because of vulnerabilities in plugins or themes. It is relatively time consuming to check for updates and stay up to date to make it unlikely that someone would be able to hack your blog.
Wordpress 2.2.1 Update
The Wordpress development team released yet another update of the Wordpress blog script raising the version number to 2.2.1 in the process. This update contains several bug fixes that might have plagued some Wordpress blog owners while others – including myself – did not experience any of the bugs.
The more important part of this update is that it also fixes several security holes making it a required update for every webmaster. The vulnerabilities that have been fixed, they are:
