A scant couple of days ago, Subversion (the project) formally graduated from its incubation phase, becoming a full-fledged Apache project at subversion.apache.org. It seemed like almost yesterday that it had been accepted as a candidate by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)… In fact, it was in late 2009 that the proposal to join [...]
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Yesterday, WordPress 2.9.2 was released to correct a bug in which “trashed” blog posts are visible by potentially unauthorized users.
According to Ryan, this can occur when logged-in users attempt to browse the trash area; these users can view posts that belong to others, so sensitive or private information may be inappropriately accessible. Thomas Mackenzie first [...]
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WordPress 2.9.1 was released yesterday, after a relatively short beta and RC1 pair of cycles.
Some of you may recall the controversy surrounding WordPress 2.9, surrounding some defects that were discovered shortly after its release– although some people have mentioned that the problems, they felt, were present even in the previous versions of the software. As [...]
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For those of you who were wondering whether to upgrade to WordPress 2.8.5, given the relative stability of 2.8.4, wonder no longer: you might as well upgrade to 2.8.6 instead. Yesterday, WordPress 2.8.6 was released, to address a couple of security vulnerabilities found since 2.8.5. Ryan discusses the fixes being provided in 2.8.6: our recommendation [...]
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As first mentioned over at Javamancy mini, WordPress 2.8.5 was just released. WordPress 2.8.4 has held steady for more than two months at this point, and it almost seemed as if we, the blogging community, would be able to make it to December and the WordPress 2.9 release. Alas, no… Of course, since this is [...]
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Welcome to September, folks!
As you’ve probably noticed, although Javamancy mini has been humming along with shorter items, Javamancy itself has been fairly quiet last month. Not to say things didn’t happen– and there were things that happened– but there were some items of interest that unfortunately do not really fit the Javamancy model of reporting [...]
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… And here ’tis, the seventeenth announced update to Javamancy the Weblog, Javamancy mini, and all of the other Web applications running at javamancy.com (that most of you don’t have to interact with, or even worry about!).
The majority of the update is, of course, the WordPress 2.8.4 release, which finally cleared our QA testing and CM [...]
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Less than two weeks ago, WordPress 2.8.3 was released in order to address a security vulnerability; before that, less than a month ago, WordPress 2.8.2 was released to address some other security issues…
Now we have WordPress 2.8.4, which according to Matt is a security release intended primarily to address a password reset vulnerability that allows [...]
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