Wordpress 2.8.5 out

I was wondering the next release version of Wordpress would be 2.9 but one more update to 2.8 i.e 2.8.5 has be released.This would be termed as a security hardening update to the DOS attacks which were frequent few months back.According to the official Wordpress Blog this is not an urgent upgrade, but it has the goal of hardening your install, so upgrading is recommended.

Some of it’s features 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.

Wordpress recommends that all sites to be upgraded to this new version of WordPress to ensure that you have the best available protection.So go update now.If you think your site may have been hit by one of the recent exploits and you would like to make sure that you have cleared out all traces of the exploit then we would recommend that you take a look at the WordPress Exploit Scanner.

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