WordPress 2.8 is now out for stable download. Go to Wordpress Download page to download the latest WordPress, if you haven’t just yet.

According to WordPress development team, WordPress 2.8 fixes over 790 bugs that are uncovered in the previous version.

For more information, view the video below: -

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Wordpress 2.7.1 is now out. If you have upgraded to Wordpress 2.7 previously, you can now automatically upgrade to 2.7.1. Full list of changes between 2.7 and 2.7.1.

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In just less than two weeks, after Wordpress 2.6.5 was released, Wordpress 2.7 is now released.

Wordpress 2.7 is available for download now.

The main feature of Wordpress 2.7 is the availability of one-click installation instead of having to go through all the trouble. But in order for that to happen, you have to sign up with one of the web hosting partners that support one-click installation. One of the web hosting companies is Bluehost with web hosting starting from $6.95/month.

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Wordpress 2.6.5 is available for download and the people at Wordpress strongly recommends everyone upgrade to this release.

The main security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. There are three other small fixes which are not important.

Download Wordpress 2.6.5.

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Matt Mullenweg announced that Wordpress 2.6 is now available, like almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 makes WordPress a more powerful CMS, you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web.

To understand more, view the video below:

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Less than a month after Wordpress 2.5 is out, Wordpress has released version 2.5.1 which includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix.

Read more on Wordpress 2.5.1 announcement page

Download the latest Wordpress 2.5.1 here.

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After six months of work by the Wordpress community, Wordpress 2.5 is the result — a cleaner, faster and less cluttered customizable dashboard, multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts and pages.

Check out the 4-minute screencast of the new interface in action or just go to the Wordpress download page.

Otherwise, you may want to check out Matt’s post from WordPress blog for further details on User Features and Developer Features.

Wordpress.org spanking new layout

And yes, Wordpress.org got a new layout as well! Well done!

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Just slightly a month after releasing WordPress 2.3.2, Wordpress has just release Wordpress 2.3.3 about 8 hours ago, which is somewhat an urgent security release.

It was quoted by Wordpress that:

WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. A flaw was found in our XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow any valid user to edit posts of any other user on that blog. In addition to fixing this security flaw, 2.3.3 fixes a few minor bugs.

Go and download the latest Wordpress now!

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The latest Wordpress, version 2.3.2 is out now with a quick fix to a bug that is known to allow any user to view your draft and pending posts. Ryan has posted about the quick fix on Wordpress 2.3.2.

Get the latest Wordpress now to protect your blog, especially if you are using Wordpress 2.3.1.

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