WordPress 2.8.1 was released yesterday and looks like the major reason for upgrading in this case is a new exploit that from my quick reading could be potentially dangerous. You can find the exploit details here. Other than that just a standard set of fixes:
- Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won’t have to change.
- Dashboard memory usage is reduced. Some people were running out of memory when loading the dashboard, resulting in an incomplete page.
- The automatic upgrade no longer accidentally deletes files when cleaning up from a failed upgrade.
- A problem where the rich text editor wasn’t being loaded due to compression issues has been worked around.
- Extra security has been put in place to better protect you from plugins that do not do explicit permission checks.
- Translation of role names fixed.
- wp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user specified menu order rather than the page title.
- Upload error messages are now correctly reported.
- Autosave error experienced by some IE users is fixed.
- Styling glitch in the plugin editor fixed.
- SSH2 filesystem requirements updated.
- Switched back to curl as the default transport.
- Updated the translation library to avoid a problem with mbstring.func_overload.
- Stricter inline style sanitization.
- Stricter menu security.
- Disabled code highlighting due to browser incompatibilities.
- RTL layout fixes.
Full Details at http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-1/
So I suggest everyone upgrade ASAP to avoid any problems. I figured I’d make a post just so the word gets out there for anyone stumbling on our blog.
Cool,
One thing you need to do is fix your layout for safari 4.0.2 as comments where people have websites as a in there name seems to over lap the number of the reply.
We’ll look into this, thanks for letting us know :)!
Worst thing in WP is plugins upgrade. It takes a lot of time to verify if each upgrade didn’t break anything and a few days after upgrading almost all plugins there are a dozen of new versions again to upgrade.
Because of that I end up waiting too much to upgrade WP, waiting for all plugin devs to make them compatible. I didn’t upgrade to 2.7.1 because a plugin that didn’t work and only recently I was able to find the problem… dev didn’t know how to fix the bug even with many ppl complaining about it.
And to make things worse I have to manage 2 blogs myself, and want to create 1 more -.-
Hopefully I will go directly to 2.8.1 in a few weeks 🙂