WordPress 2.8.5 Just Released

by Jeremy Schoemaker on October 20, 2009 · 25 comments

WordPress 2.8.5 has just been released. It contains many “hardening fixes” intended for the highly anticipated 2.9 release but pushed up do to a bunch of new exploits in the wild.

Upgrade your blog now.

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1 Mike October 20, 2009 at 10:20 pm

Thanks for the update.

Any word on what the difference between this version and what’s going to be included on 2.9?

2 SEO Company October 20, 2009 at 10:22 pm

This is good news, but the bad news is we have a ton of blogs to update.

3 Eduardo Maio October 21, 2009 at 2:17 pm: With four clicks you can upgrade a Wordpress instalation, with a database backup included

Before it was much worse, uploading all the files manually.

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4 tim October 20, 2009 at 10:23 pm

thanks for the quick word!

5 Peter October 21, 2009 at 1:33 am

I read a few topics. I respect your work and added blog to favorites.

6 Tom - StandOutBlogger.com October 21, 2009 at 1:54 am

Another update! It feels like they update Wordpress every week!

7 samn October 21, 2009 at 2:50 am

It almost feels like you have to update wordpress every damn week now.

That’s fine for 1 site – but its becoming hard to base many clients sites on WP – as updating 100′s of sites to insure security is a real pain.

8 Rocky Garcia October 21, 2009 at 2:51 am

I think there are only few changes on 2.8.5.

9 Andrew October 21, 2009 at 4:13 am

will be updating in a minute. ‘Better safe than sorry’ they say..

10 Tech October 21, 2009 at 4:54 am

It pays to update as soon as possible. I had my blog hacked because I didn’t bother with the updates.

11 Amateur Blogger October 21, 2009 at 9:58 am

Wow, it’s really tough to keep up with all of the updates. I realize that there are security reasons for many (if not all) of the updates, but geez, it’s practically a full time job just doing updates!

12 AllStarScanning October 21, 2009 at 10:27 am

Thanks for the post and update…..I have just gotten into blogging and would like to know what would be the best way for me to download wordpress and where/who can I use as a host!

Thanks!

13 Amateur Blogger October 21, 2009 at 11:04 am

@AllStar: I design and develop WordPress sites and do installations. Contact me off this site at www. 1955Design. com

14 AQC October 21, 2009 at 4:26 pm: Shark world, isn’t ?

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15 Social Bookmarking Service October 21, 2009 at 12:58 pm

Jeremy, you are the first one who delivered this information to you.

Thank you very much.

After reading this post I am heading towards wordpress.com/wp-admin to upgrade my wordpress …

16 V.C October 21, 2009 at 3:57 pm

I don’t understand why they released the new version so quickly after the last update 2 months ago.
I don’t see any changing in this new version. It’s not really necessary to upgrade.

17 AQC October 21, 2009 at 4:24 pm

This is a security update, the version 2.9 provides new functionality for images.

18 Bibokz October 21, 2009 at 10:47 pm

I already updated my blog.

19 oes tsetnoc October 22, 2009 at 4:38 am

just little changes this time

20 Harsh Agrawal October 22, 2009 at 6:15 am

Saw this update Yesterday and the first thing which I did
was Backup my Db and updated the wordpress. Though wordpress are releasing very quick update..

21 fas October 22, 2009 at 8:05 am