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.
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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.
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Thanks for the update.
Any word on what the difference between this version and what’s going to be included on 2.9?
This is good news, but the bad news is we have a ton of blogs to update.
With four clicks you can upgrade a Wordpress instalation, with a database backup included
Before it was much worse, uploading all the files manually.
thanks for the quick word!
I read a few topics. I respect your work and added blog to favorites.
Another update! It feels like they update Wordpress every week!
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.
I think there are only few changes on 2.8.5.
will be updating in a minute. ‘Better safe than sorry’ they say..
It pays to update as soon as possible. I had my blog hacked because I didn’t bother with the updates.
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!
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!
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Shark world, isn’t ?
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 …
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.
This is a security update, the version 2.9 provides new functionality for images.
I already updated my blog.
just little changes this time
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..
Upgraded but I found missed schedule after the upgrade.
Just downloaded it, working fine.
I already upgraded. This will be better to upgrade older version.
i hope it will better
Thanks for the update. I just updated my blog