Filed under: Security, Blogging, web 2.0
WordPress 2.5.1 security update
The WordPress team has released version 2.5.1 of the blogging software. The new version, which comes nearly a month after the initial release fixes a slew of performance and interface bugs, but also includes a very important security update. It is highly reccommended that all WordPress 2.5 users update their installations as soon as possible, especially if you allow open-registration (for user comments or for multi-author blogs).In addition to the aforementioned security patch, 2.5.1 contains a number of fixes to issues that have plagued some WordPress users for the last couple of weeks.
The highlights include
- Improvements to the Media Uploader
- Performance tweaks for the Dashboard and the Write and Comments pages
- TinyMCE has been updated
- Layout fixes for IE users
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Anthony said 12:41PM on 4-26-2008
You misspelled "recommended".
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Tom said 1:28PM on 4-26-2008
Using that wordpress updater script ;)
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Leszek Pawlowicz said 5:13PM on 4-26-2008
Don't do it - ran the upgrade, and it required me to log in again. When I entered the correct ID and password, they were rejected. When I specify a lost password problem, it emails me a validation email where the validation code is truncated and invalid. So now I'm locked out of my site, and will have to rebuild it completely. How fracking stupid is that?
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Christina Warren said 5:24PM on 4-26-2008
Leszek - do you have access to your phpMyadmin account? Just back-up your wordpress database and then re-import your settings to a new wordpress database, minus wp_users table.
Leszek Pawlowicz said 5:22PM on 4-26-2008
Found a solution to my problem, an emergency simple last resort way to reset the WP admin password:
http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2007/05/22/wp-emergency-password-recovery/
Use only in case of emergency.
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Christina Warren said 5:27PM on 4-26-2008
Oh good! Glad that fixed your problem
nj said 5:29AM on 4-27-2008
I probably speak for a lot of people, but I'm sick of wordpress and their constant "updates" ... it seems like I'm just getting things up and running & there's a security update. I'm seriously thinking of going to another platform.
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Kerim Satirli said 7:47AM on 4-27-2008
I'd rather have a system that keeps updating and fixing things than one that stays stagnant for a year.
I never had any problems with WP incremental upgrades, they usually take me 2 mins or less, but if even that is too long, you can set-up SVN autoupdating and be done with it :-)
nj said 3:08PM on 4-27-2008
How about a system that just f'ing works so you don't have to update it every few weeks. This wordpress nonsense is starting to remind me of phpbb. this reminds me of the hackjob that is phpbb. for the record, I've been on wp since early 2005.
- my recent annoyance has been a completely blank white page on my blog.
- before that, it was an endless loop of "Your database is out-of-date. Please upgrade."
wtf!
lostasylum said 1:40PM on 4-27-2008
all i want to know is... does the latest wordpress release fix the issue of permalinks for those running IIS? there are numerous of us out there for which all the documented "fixes" do NOT work...
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Huadian Zhang said 10:44PM on 5-11-2008
I just backed up my DB into a .sql file, deleted my site, copied 2.5 in and installed it, then re-instated my database.
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BradfordOnline said 6:48PM on 6-16-2008
I did a fresh install of 2.5.1 on a LAMP system. (Linux, Apache, mySQL, PHP). I've installed previous versions of WP several times on the same server.
When I go to the install page it's blank. I've seen the same problem mentioned elsewhere on the net, but no solutions. Has anyone else experienced the same?
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