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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
… 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 [...]
… And now we have it, the sixteenth 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!). From a technical standpoint, this realigns Javamancy with the WordPress 2.8.3 codeline, which does not adversely [...]
WordPress 2.8.3 Now Available
August 3, 2009 at 10:03 PM · 2 comments
Just in time for August, another security release for the WordPress 2.8.x code line is now available to the public. According to Ryan, there were some security vulnerabilities that were uncaught by the previous release (2.8.2), that were noticed and fixed for this latest version. Like the previous version of WordPress, this one is recommended [...]
