Wordpress 2.5.1 (Very Important Security Fix) – Upgrade Now
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Well it is not long after the last Wordpress (2.5) release which was on March 29th. Not even a month after Wordpress has announced the release of the newer version Wordpress 2.5.1. This is a must upgrade version. Find out Why?
Wordpress has announced a very important security fix in this release. The vulnerability of the older version is not out in the public yet, but it will be shorty. According to the wordpress website everyone should upgrade to this release, particularly those who have open registration on their blog, so I am assuming this is a registration bug which is quiet major.
Aside from the security fix, there were number of other bugs that were fixed and several improvements were made in regards to performance enhancement. If you download this Wordpress 2.5.1, you will be getting over 70 bug fixes as well as improved perfomance. Just an overview of the update:
- – Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
- – Better performance for those who have many categories
- – Media Uploader fixes
- – An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
- – Widget Administration fixes
- – Various usability improvements
- – Layout fixes for IE
Well what the heck are you waiting for? Upgrade your blogs…. I just upgraded mine because I CARE. Do you care?? You are still reading go on and upgrade.
Hey, I am Syed Balkhi, The guy who is behind Balkhis Inc. I entered the industry back in 2002 not knowing a single thing. I barely spoke English at that time. In the past six years, my language barrier has been eliminated. Aside from English, now I also speak html, and php. Along with the languages I have also managed to master a few arts. Art of web-designing started when I first entered. Messing around with photoshop, I learned how to create my first web design. Now I founded a web designing firm Uzzz Productions. After running numerous amount of websites in various niche, I have mastered the art of web-development. Now I am compiling a resource of what I already know, and what I am learning on this blog. This resource is to help me if I ever need a guide to look back to, and it is help my fellow webmasters.
I am still in the dark ages using 2.3 something…
I dont know if you read but as far as I have known alot of blogs tend to get hacked because they are not updated … Because after a while wordpress let the vulnerability of the old versions out … If you see what I am saying. You should upgrade immidiately.
Thanks for the update syed
Will have to upgrade mine too now..
Well Syed as you know I upgraded today to the new version. Thanks for chatting me through it as I went through the steps. It was just as easy as you said!
no problem bruce. I am glad your site is now more hacker safe.
Thanks for update syed, even though i don’t need it now i certainly will in the near future thanks.
I definitely need to get all my blogs upgraded to this new Wordpress although I’ve heard that the UI has changed. Is that true?
If youre still on 2.5, I think it is more dangerous than being on a prev version. Always better to upgrade to the latest. But I hate upgrading wordpress. Everytime I try to upgrade, my heart comes in my mouth!