Xunil Tech News » hardening http://www.xunil.co.nz Bringing you tech news from New Zealand and Around the world. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:08:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Bringing you weekly tech news and tech discussion from New Zealand and around the world. Kimberly Jansen no Kimberly Jansen xtnpodcast@gmail.com xtnpodcast@gmail.com (Kimberly Jansen) Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Brining you weekly tech news from New Zealand and around the world. technology,news,software,hardware,new zealand,podcast,kimberly jansen,tech,geek,chick Xunil Tech News » hardening http://www.xunil.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/xtnw_art_medium.jpg http://www.xunil.co.nz WordPress 2.8.5 Released http://www.xunil.co.nz/2009/10/21/wordpress-2-8-5-released/ http://www.xunil.co.nz/2009/10/21/wordpress-2-8-5-released/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:42:11 +0000 Kimberly Jansen http://www.xunil.co.nz/2009/10/21/wordpress-2-8-5-released/ wordpress-logo-200 Upgrade now everyone. It’s a simple process to upgrade through your WordPress Dashboard.

Via: WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release

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.

We would recommend that all sites are upgraded to this new version of WordPress so as to ensure that you have the best available protection.

If you are running a WordPress.org site maintained by me, you are already upgraded to this version so you don’t need to worry.

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