A new security/fix version of WordPress, 3.0.5, has been released today, as mentioned by Andrew Nacin. While it may seem like a small release, it provides some useful security patches that all WordPress systems should have.
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WordPress 2.9.2 Fixes a Security Vulnerability
February 16, 2010 at 8:21 AM · 5 comments
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 [...]
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. [...]
Maybe this ought to be called “the FUD Edition”, Part II… After one year, remember the first FUD Edition? As we count down the minutes to the start of 2010, let’s review some of the things that have captivated us (for lack of a better term) over the course of 2009: The world economy, and [...]
Tagged as: New Year's Day, politics, security, USA
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 [...]
… 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 [...]
Tagged as: DevPal, Javamancy, Javamancy mini, security, upgrade, WordPress
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 [...]
“Say it isn’t so!” Well, for those of you who have been following this event intently– and who isn’t, if you’re an avid Twitterer, right?– Twitter appears to be the victim of a DoS attack that started around 9:00 AM ET today. In a cruel twist of fate, in which other companies use Twitter to [...]
Tagged as: denial-of-service, security, Tumblr, Twitter
