Tag Archives: release

Found any bugs yet?

Posted on November 8, 2009 by Owen

Well, the November bug hunt has finally kicked off and if you were thinking of taking part then there’s not much time left. Unfortunately I just don’t have the bandwidth to take part, the twins have really sucked away any … Continue reading →

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WordPress v2.8.4

Posted on August 15, 2009 by Owen

Hot on the heels of the latest version of WordPress comes a new version with another security hole fixed. This wasn’t a major one, just an annoyance that lets a malicious user keep reseting a particular user’s password. It wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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WordPress v2.8.2

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Owen

There’s been another minor drop of WordPress, version 2.8.2, released just a few days after 2.8.1. It doesn’t look like much has changed but there’s one important change under the hood. Apparently v2.8.1 had a cross-site scripting issue that allowed … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.8 Beta 1

Posted on May 17, 2009 by Owen

I’ve just installed WordPress v2.8 Beta 1 on this blog to see what the new release is going to look like. I haven’t had time to explore the changes yet, the UI looks pretty similar to 2.7, and I haven’t … Continue reading →

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Wordpress 2.8 knocking at the door

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Owen

I’ve just read on the WordPress blog that the dev team is going into a 24-hour patch marathon, just as the set of features on WordPress 2.8 has been frozen. This is an important period where patches that have been … Continue reading →

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Wordpress 2.6.2 released

Posted on September 13, 2008 by Owen

There’s been a new drop of WordPress which addresses some security issues and a couple of bugs. Here the write up from the development blog: Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness … Continue reading →

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Wordpress v2.6.1

Posted on August 15, 2008 by Owen

There’s been a new point release of WordPress dropped to fix some minor bugs with 2.6. Nothing major and in fact, there’s no real need to upgrade unless you have a problem that’s been addressed here. Here’s some information about … Continue reading →

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