WordPress 2.3.3

WordPress 2.3.3 has been released and this release includes a security fix (xmlrpc.php) and 3 minor bug fixes.
3 bug fixes as follows (Ctrl C + Ctrl V from WordPress Trac):

  • gettext fails to determine byteorder on 64bit systems with php5.2.1
  • some registration emails fail in 2.3.1 b/c of “callout verification”
  • maybe_create_table call to config.php issue

5 files changed (Thanks to whooami):

  • /wp-admin/install-helper.php
  • /wp-includes/gettext.php
  • /wp-includes/pluggable.php
  • /wp-includes/version.php
  • /xmlrpc.php

Get WordPress 2.3.3 now.

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Happy 5th Birthday WordPress

Today is the 5th Birthday Of WordPress and that makes my WordPress plugins about the same age and my plugins grew together with WordPress.

I didn’t except some of my plugins to make it into books and blogs of those big corporations. Thank you guys for supporting my plugins =)

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WordPress 2.3.2

WordPress 2.3.2 has been released and this release includes a number of changes including one security fix.

  • Performance improvements for post sanitization when raw content is required.
  • Changes to is_admin() to ensure that it is only true for admin pages thereby protecting against exposing draft posts.
  • Suppression of database errors unless WP_DEBUG is true.
  • Check for valid database connection information during install and display and error if the install fails due to database rights.
  • Support for a custom database down page to be displayed on database connection errors.
  • Changes to make sure we are more selective in what we make clickable, this introduces different rules for different uri types.
  • Changes to wp-mail.php to escape the error messages when displaying them to avoid a possible XSS attack.
  • Changes to ensure that the post password is only exposed by the xmlrpc method metaWeblog.getRecentPosts to users with rights to edit a post.
  • Changes to the information exposed the wp.getAuthors xmlrpc method to reduce the information exposed and add a capabilites check.
  • Addition of extra capabilites checks to xmlrpc methods.
  • Addition of extra capabilites checks to APP server.
  • Changes to validate_file() to improve its traversal attempt detection when running on windows.

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