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
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4-26-2008 @ 12:41PM
Anthony said...
You misspelled "recommended".
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4-26-2008 @ 1:28PM
Tom said...
Using that wordpress updater script ;)
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4-26-2008 @ 5:13PM
Leszek Pawlowicz said...
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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4-26-2008 @ 5:24PM
Christina Warren said...
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.
4-26-2008 @ 5:22PM
Leszek Pawlowicz said...
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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4-26-2008 @ 5:27PM
Christina Warren said...
Oh good! Glad that fixed your problem
4-27-2008 @ 5:29AM
nj said...
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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4-27-2008 @ 7:47AM
Kerim Satirli said...
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 :-)
4-27-2008 @ 3:08PM
nj said...
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!
4-27-2008 @ 1:40PM
lostasylum said...
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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5-11-2008 @ 10:44PM
Huadian Zhang said...
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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