WordPress 2.0.6 Released

Folks from WordPress have released Wordpress 2.0.6. This new version of WordPress includes several security patches and all users are heavily recommended to upgrade.

What’s new in WordPress 2.0.6

  • The aforementioned security fixes.
  • HTML quicktags now work in Safari browsers.
  • Comments are filtered to prevent them from messing up your blog layout.
  • Compatibility with PHP/FastCGI setups.

WordPress 2.0.6 is apparently the last major release before WordPress 2.1 comes out. I just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.0.6, the upgrade process is damn simple, refer Codex for details.

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This post was published by on January 5, 2007

About the Author: Thilak Rao works as a Social Media Expert. He is one of the first professional bloggers from India, and he loves to write, travel and click photos. Follow him on Twitter @thilak

  • http://www.rishiraj.info Rishi

    Awesome!

    Is that function.php fixed in this version? [must be] !

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Rishi: Yes, it has been fixed !

  • http://www.wisetome.com/splat Vyoma

    Thanks Thilak.

    Upgrade of Splat goes to my to-do list – on the top.

  • http://www.wisetome.com/splat Vyoma

    Seems like TechBuzz was down due to the upgrade – I could see some errors in relation to Cache Plugin. Did you forget to switch it off, Thilak?

  • http://technospot.net/blogs/index.php/2006/12/19/p Ashish Mohta

    They released it pretty fast, I mean the bug was found 3 days back among many bloggers and update is here now.

    I am done with the update.

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