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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
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsAnthonyApr 26th 2008 12:41PM
You misspelled "recommended".
TomApr 26th 2008 1:28PM
Using that wordpress updater script ;)
Leszek PawlowiczApr 26th 2008 5:13PM
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?
Christina WarrenApr 26th 2008 5:24PM
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 PawlowiczApr 26th 2008 5:22PM
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.
Christina WarrenApr 26th 2008 5:27PM
Oh good! Glad that fixed your problem
njApr 27th 2008 5:29AM
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.
Kerim SatirliApr 27th 2008 7:47AM
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 :-)
njApr 27th 2008 3:08PM
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!
lostasylumApr 27th 2008 1:40PM
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...
Huadian ZhangMay 11th 2008 10:44PM
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.
BradfordOnlineJun 16th 2008 6:48PM
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?