Newest Wordpress Security Upgrade Released

Wordpress has released their newest security upgrade Wordpress 2.0.6. Here is what the site has about the update:

• 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.

On the WP site they also announced that this would be the last upgrade before Wordpress 2.1 (which is currently in Beta) is released. Ian Robertson of BlogBullet.com has a list of expected new features in 2.1:

• Spellchecker in TinyMCE.
• Exporter.
• Pages can be private and draft.
• Pages have their own caps.
• A Page can be used as the front page.
• Latest posts can be moved off the front page and on to another page.
• Pseudo-cron is used for future posting. No more NOW().
• Link manager overhauled.
• Links can have subcategories.
• New login screen.
• More AJAX to avoid page reloads.
• Blog privacy
• User paging and searching.
• WP_Error class.
• Include files reorganized.
• Lots of new API.
• Script loader.

From everything I have been reading this update is going to do some good things for Wordpress users but it isn't set to be released for at least a few weeks, but hey, at least we all have something to look forward to.

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