WordPress.org has today released a “hardening release” of their popular CMS. This brings the WordPress version to 2.8.5.
All WordPress users are advised to immediately update their sites to the new version. As long as you have version 2.7 or higher, updating now only takes seconds as it can easily be done within the WordPress dashboard.
The new version doesn’t appear to bring any new features, only security related changes. The release article states that:
The headline changes in this release are:
- A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
- Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
- Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
- Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.
Here is the link to the full release article:
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpress-2-8-5-hardening-release/
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..