ReleasesJanuary 4, 2010
WordPress 2.9.1
After over a million downloads of WordPress 2.9 and lots of feedback from all of you, we’re releasing WordPress 2.9.1. This release addresses a handful of minor issues as well as…
By Ryan Boren · 1 min read
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DevelopmentDecember 29, 2009
WordPress 2.9.1 Release Candidate 1
Thanks to everyone who tested 2.9.1 Beta 1. We’re following that up with Release Candidate 1. RC1 contains a few more fixes, bringing the number of fixed tickets up to 23. If you…
By Ryan Boren · 1 min read
DevelopmentDecember 23, 2009
WordPress 2.9.1 Beta 1
Unfortunately, the recent 2.9 release triggered a bug in certain versions of PHP’s curl extension. With these versions of curl, scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed…
By Ryan Boren · 1 min read
ReleasesDecember 19, 2009
WordPress 2.9, oh so fine
I want to make you mine, all the time… oh wait. Hello. I’m here on behalf of the entire WordPress development team and community to announce the immediate availability of…
By Matt Mullenweg · 5 min read
DevelopmentDecember 16, 2009
2.9 Release Candidate 1
We’re at that exciting point in WordPress development where the dev team feels like version 2.9 is complete and ready for the world. If you’ve been waiting for your moment to…
By Matt Mullenweg · 1 min read
DevelopmentDecember 2, 2009
WordPress 2.9 Beta 2
Version beta-2 of WordPress 2.9 is ready for your testing pleasure. You can download it or use the WordPress Beta Tester plugin and auto-upgrade a test installation. See all…
By Andrew Ozz · 1 min read
ReleasesNovember 12, 2009
WordPress 2.8.6 Security Release
2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6…
By Ryan Boren · 1 min read
ReleasesOctober 20, 2009
WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release
As you know over the past couple of months we have been working on the new features for WordPress 2.9. We have also been working on trying to make WordPress as secure as possible…
By Peter Westwood · 1 min read
ReleasesAugust 12, 2009
WordPress 2.8.4: Security Release
Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password…
By Matt Mullenweg · 1 min read
ReleasesAugust 3, 2009
WordPress 2.8.3 Security Release
Unfortunately, I missed some places when fixing the privilege escalation issues for 2.8.1. Luckily, the entire WordPress community has our backs. Several folks in the community…
By Ryan Boren · 1 min read
ReleasesJuly 20, 2009
WordPress 2.8.2
WordPress 2.8.2 fixes an XSS vulnerability. Comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin. This could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin…
By Ryan Boren · 1 min read
ReleasesJuly 9, 2009
WordPress 2.8.1
WordPress 2.8.1 fixes many bugs and tightens security for plugin administration pages. Core Security Technologies notified us that admin pages added by certain plugins could be…
By Ryan Boren · 1 min read