Thomas Mackenzie alerted us to a problem where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should upgrade to 2.9.2. [...]
Upcoming Maintenance Notice
January 26, 2010 By 1 Comment
This quick news update is to inform all our hosting customers about some upcoming scheduled maintenance. We have installed a new kernel on our node to fix some security and memory issues. [...]
WordPress 2.9.1 Released
January 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Three weeks after the release of the much anticipated WordPress 2.9 we are now graced with another update. WordPress 2.9.1 fixes a handful of issues where scheduled posts and pingbacks were not processed correctly due to incompatibilities with some hosts. [...]
WordPress 2.9 Released
December 19, 2009 By 2 Comments
The long awaited WordPress 2.9 has finally been released upon the masses. This release is called “Carmen” and is named in honor of jazz vocalist Carmen McRae.
Version 2.9 includes a number of new features including a basic image editing tool, trash bin and simpler video embeds. [...]
WordPress 2.8.6 Available – Security Fixes
November 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Wordpress developers have just released a security update for their very popular blogging platform. The following announcement was made on the WordPress.org blog: [...]
WordPress 2.8.5 released – Security Hardening
October 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The latest version of WordPress has been thrown out the door and into the hands of WordPress users. This release has been dubbed a security hardening release because more preventive measures have been put in place to make WordPress more secure. [...]
How to Keep WordPress Secure
September 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
A stitch in time saves nine. I couldn’t sew my way out of a bag, but it’s true advice for bloggers as well — a little bit of work on an upgrade now saves a lot of work fixing something later. [...]
WordPress 2.8.4 Security Release
August 12, 2009 By 1 Comment
WordPress 2.8.4 has been released to the public. This version is to patch a vulnerability that was discovered yesterday. [...]
WordPress 2.8.3 Security Update
August 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment
WordPress 2.8.2 is now available. It’s a security upgrade that fixes a possible exploit.
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 dug deeper and discovered areas that were overlooked. [...]
WordPress 2.8.2 Released – Security Fix
July 20, 2009 By 1 Comment
WordPress 2.8.2 is now available. It’s a security upgrade that fixes a possible exploit. [...]
WordPress 2.8.1 Released
July 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
WordPress 2.8.1 is now available to the public and can be downloaded from here. The latest WordPress release includes a number of bug fixes as seen in the list below: Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won’t have to [...]
WordPress 2.8 Released
June 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment
WordPress 2.8 (aka Baker) has finally been released onto the world! Premium WordPress Hosting has already been updated to version 2.8 and everything went smooth. [...]
