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WordPress 3.0 Beta 1
RELEASE WordPress has been release its first beta of WordPress 3.0. In a late-night announcement Jane Wells, the UX lead at Automattic, laid out some of the many new features in the version 3.0 beta of the popular blogging software. According to WordPress official blog, it’s still an early beta, with some unfinished features. So you’re likely not going to want to …

WordPress 2.8.4 Security Patch is out now!
RELEASE Another heads up for all WordPress users. The WordPress dev team just released another security update WordPress 2.8.4 to fix a vulnerability discovered yesterday. Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the first account …

WordPress 2.8.3 security updates is out!
RELEASE WordPress release its new version 2.8.3 with some major security updates. According to Ryan Boren, Unfortunately, I missed some places when fixing the privilege escalation issues for 2.8.1. Luckily, the entire WordPress community has our backs. Several folks in the community dug deeper and discovered areas that were overlooked. With their help, the remaining issues are fixed in 2.8.3. Since …

WordPress release its new version 2.8.2 with security update
RELEASE WordPress release its new version 2.8.2 and fixes its XSS vulnerability. Comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin. This could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin to another site. Download 2.8.2 or automatically upgrade from the Tools->Upgrade page of your blog’s admin. Source: wordpress.org

WordPress release its new version v2.8.1
RELEASE WordPress 2.8.1 fixes many bugs and tightens security for plugin administration pages. Core Security Technologies notified us that admin pages added by certain plugins could be viewed by unprivileged users, resulting in information being leaked. Not all plugins are vulnerable to this problem, but we advise upgrading to 2.8.1 to be safe.

WordPress 2.8.1 Release Candidate 1
NEWS Just a quick note that WordPress 2.8.1 RC 1 is out. Damn close to a final release at this point, and it’s looking pretty shiny. Please download RC1, review the changes made since beta 2, and have a look at all of the tickets fixed in 2.8.1.

WordPress release its new Version 2.8
RELEASE For those of you who love to be on the cutting edge, you’ll be happy to learn that the new version of WordPress 2.8 is now available for download and has packed in a lot more user friendliness than before. According to WordPress – version 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, …

WordPress 2.8 Candidate 1 Released
RELEASE With Release Candidate 1, we think WordPress 2.8 is ready and complete. Download it, test it, and tell us what you think. If you don’t uncover any bad bugs, 2.8 will be released on Wednesday the 10th. If you’re interested in what has changed since beta 2, consult the changelog.