WordPress 2.8.5 has been released. It is time to upgrade to the latest wordpress installation guys. The new wordpress 2.8.5 was released about 4 hours ago and started to appear within most wordpress.org blogs during the last 2 hours.

WordPress qualifies this update as a Security Hardening one as many changes have been done to further improve the security of WordPress as well as to fix some previous security holes. Below is an extract of what Peter Westwood from WordPress said:

As you know over the past couple of months we have been working on the new features for WordPress 2.9. We have also been working on trying to make WordPress as secure as possible and during this process we have identified a number of security hardening changes that we thought were worth back-porting to the 2.8 branch so as to get these improvements out there and make all your sites as secure as possible.

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.

WordPress asks all users to upgrade now itself for ultimate security. WordPress 2.9 is as you know under preparation and is ought to be out in the coming months. So wordpress users, time for a little backup and upgrade.

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