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 [...]
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WordPress 2.9.2 Fixes a Security Vulnerability
February 16, 2010 at 8:21 AM · 5 comments
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. [...]
Stop the Insanity! Or, WordPress Development for 2010, a New Year’s Resolution
December 26, 2009 at 1:00 AM · 2 comments
I’ve always wondered how some popular open source and GPL projects keep going. Many times, they seem to implode upon themselves, whether due to internal or external forces imposing their undue influences upon the work at hand. The good ones realize that they are imploding and take measures to stop it from happening… and sometimes, [...]
Tagged as: change management, configuration management, programming, project management, release management, WordPress
Complaining About WordPress: Does That Make You a Bad Person?
December 25, 2009 at 3:14 AM · 1 comment
Apparently, several people have had issues with WordPress 2.9 since its FCS release just a few days ago. In fact, this has caught on such attention that there has been mention by Jeff (at Weblog Tools Collection), Keith (also at Weblog Tools Collection), and at the WordPress development blog about a beta version of WordPress [...]
Tagged as: open source, software, upgrade, WordPress
Jeff Chandler, at the Weblog Tools Collection blog, posts that WordPress 2.9.1 beta version will be available shortly to address a WordPress core bug in the 2.9 version. While undoubtedly version 2.9.1 will include additional bug fixes, there is a bug fix reported in WordPress’ Trac issue tracker: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/11505/ticket-11505-full.patch So those of you who wish [...]
WordPress 2.9 was released yesterday, and with it comes several new features.
Tagged as: continuous integration, Javamancy, security, upgrade, WordPress
WordPress 2.8.6 Fixes a Couple of Security Vulnerabilities
November 13, 2009 at 1:00 AM
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 [...]
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 [...]
How to Iteratively Delete .svn Directories: A Better Way
September 24, 2009 at 10:37 AM · 2 comments
By now, gentle readers, you have probably seen the Javamancy mini post about the one-liner deletion for .svn files. I really like Adam Bien. He seems like a nice guy, and I occasionally drop by his blog, on a lark, to read his stuff, which is often focused on Java and NetBeans, one of our [...]
Tagged as: Adam Bien, configuration management, Java, Javamancy, Javamancy mini, Linux, NetBeans, OS X, PHP, UNIX
WordPress 2.8.4 Fixes a Security Vulnerability
August 12, 2009 at 9:00 AM · 2 comments
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 [...]
