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 Just Released
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October 31, 2009 at 8:04 am
Thanks for the update. I just updated my blog
October 28, 2009 at 12:13 pm
i hope it will better
October 23, 2009 at 2:34 am
I already upgraded. This will be better to upgrade older version.
October 22, 2009 at 8:20 am
Just downloaded it, working fine.
October 22, 2009 at 8:05 am
Upgraded but I found missed schedule after the upgrade.
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..
October 22, 2009 at 4:38 am
just little changes this time
October 21, 2009 at 10:47 pm
I already updated my blog.
October 21, 2009 at 4:24 pm
This is a security update, the version 2.9 provides new functionality for images.
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.
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 …
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!
October 21, 2009 at 11:04 am
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October 21, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Shark world, isn’t ?
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!
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.
October 21, 2009 at 4:13 am
will be updating in a minute. ‘Better safe than sorry’ they say..
October 21, 2009 at 2:51 am
I think there are only few changes on 2.8.5.
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.
October 21, 2009 at 1:54 am
Another update! It feels like they update Wordpress every week!
October 21, 2009 at 1:33 am
I read a few topics. I respect your work and added blog to favorites.
October 20, 2009 at 10:23 pm
thanks for the quick word!
October 20, 2009 at 10:22 pm
This is good news, but the bad news is we have a ton of blogs to update.
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.
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?