{"id":298,"date":"2011-02-08T08:14:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T00:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/?p=298"},"modified":"2011-02-08T08:14:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T00:14:10","slug":"wordpress-3-0-5-3-1-rc4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/08\/wordpress-3-0-5-3-1-rc4\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 3.0.5 &#038; 3.1 RC4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2011\/02\/wordpress-3-0-5\/\">WordPress 3.0.5 &#038; 3.1 RC4<\/a> has been released:<\/p>\n<p><strong>WordPress 3.0.5<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/\">WordPress 3.0.5<\/a> is now available and is a security hardening update for all previous WordPress versions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Version_3.0.5\">This security release<\/a> is required if you have any untrusted user accounts, but it also comes with important security enhancements and hardening. All WordPress users are strongly encouraged to update.<\/p>\n<p>Three point oh point five<br \/> <br \/>\nEnhances security<br \/> <br \/>\nThree point one comes soon<\/p>\n<p>The release addresses a number of issues and provides two additional enhancements:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two moderate security issues<\/strong> were fixed that could have allowed a Contributor- or Author-level user to gain further access to the site.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One information disclosure issue<\/strong> was addressed that could have allowed an Author-level user to view contents of posts they should not be able to see, such as draft or private posts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two security enhancements<\/strong> were added. One improved the security of any plugins which were not properly leveraging our security API. The other offers additional defense in depth against a vulnerability that was fixed in previous release.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Nils Jueneman and Saddy for their private and responsible disclosures to security@wordpress.org for two of the issues. The others were reported or repaired by our security team.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Changelog: <a href=\"http:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/changeset?new=17420@branches\/3.0&#038;old=17175@branches\/3.0\">WordPress 3.0.5<\/a><br \/>\nDownload: <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/\">WordPress 3.0.5<\/a><br \/>\nDownload: <a href=\"http:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/changeset?format=zip&#038;new=17420&#038;old=17175&#038;new_path=branches%2F3.0&#038;old_path=branches%2F3.0\">Modified files since WordPress 3.0.4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>WordPress 3.1 RC4<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Release Candidate 4  build includes the security fixes and enhancements included in 3.0.5 and addresses about two dozen additional bugs. This includes fixes for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deleting a user and reassigning their posts to another user.<\/li>\n<li>Marking multiple users or sites as spam in multisite.<\/li>\n<li>PHP4 compatibility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As outlined in <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2011\/01\/wordpress-3-1-release-candidate-3\/\">previous<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2011\/01\/wordpress-3-1-release-candidate-2\/\">RC<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2010\/12\/wordpress-3-1-release-candidate\/\">posts<\/a>, if you are testing the release candidate and think you&#8217;ve found a bug, there are a few ways to let us know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Post it to the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/forum\/alphabeta\/\">Alpha\/Beta area in the support forums<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Report it to the <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.automattic.com\/mailman\/listinfo\/wp-testers\">wp-testers mailing list<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Join the development IRC channel and tell us live at irc.freenode.net #wordpress-dev<\/li>\n<li>File a bug ticket on the <a href=\"http:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/\">WordPress Trac<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To test WordPress 3.1, try the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wordpress-beta-tester\/\">WordPress Beta Tester plugin<\/a> (you&#8217;ll want &#8220;bleeding edge nightlies&#8221;). Or you can <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/wordpress-3.1-RC4.zip\">download the release candidate here<\/a> (zip). If any new issues become known, you&#8217;ll be able to <a href=\"http:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/report\/6\">find them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After nearly five months of development and testing, we think we&#8217;re very close to a final release. <strong>Users and developers, please test your themes and plugins.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Download: <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/wordpress-3.1-RC4.zip\">WordPress 3.1 RC4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 3.0.5 &#038; 3.1 RC4 has been released: WordPress 3.0.5 WordPress 3.0.5 is now available and is a security hardening update for all previous WordPress versions. 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