WordPress.org has released it’s new version of the WordPress popular open source blogging application. Version 2.0.6 contains security fixes, and other notable updates. This release will be the last WordPress release until the long awaited version 2.1 (currently in beta). Although WordPress intends on keeping 2.0.x active for Debian (the free or “universal” operating system based on the Linux kernel), they will update at a faster pace for 2.1.
From the WordPress.org blog:
We have a pretty important release available for everyone, it includes an important security fix and it’s recommended that everyone upgrade. This is the latest release in our stable 2.0 line, which we’ve committed to maintaining for several more years.
Here’s what’s new:
- The aforementioned security fixes.
- HTML quicktags now work in Safari browsers.
- Comments are filtered to prevent them from messing up your blog layout.
- Compatibility with PHP/FastCGI setups.
There is also an announcement with comments by Matt Mullenweg appearing on this digg.com news post.
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January 18th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
[...] Many users of the WordPress open source blogging platform had just finished updating to the new version 2.06. Less than two weeks later, WordPress.org announced version 2.0.7. The reasons given for the the back-to-back releases were to “to fix the PHP security problem and the Feedburner issue that was in 2.0.6.” WordPress users are eagerly awaiting the upcoming 2.1 version. Recently a bug in certain versions of PHP came to our attention that could cause a security vulnerability in your blog. We’re able to work around it fairly easily, so we’ve decided to release 2.0.7 to fix the PHP security problem and the Feedburner issue that was in 2.0.6. It is recommended that everyone running WordPress 2.0.6 or lower upgrade to this new version. [...]