What’s Up with 2.9.2?
The latest Upgrade to WordPress is 2.9.2. The folks at WP decided to release a quick patch for security reasons as they found out that in 2.9.1, logged in users could peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash then 2.9.2 is a MUST for you.
For everyone else – should you upgrade? As I always say, it’s better to upgrade then to wait and find out that you were hit with a security problem. So upgrade at your earliest convenience, and do it before that little old lady that you thought was no threat, reads all those trashy posts you wrote about her – thinking she would never read them because you threw them in the trash! If you set your Trash functionality to off, (see Take Out The New Years Trash), then don’t worry about it – she will never get to read them anyway.
Helping Out – A “Related Post-type” Plugin
I had the opportunity to work with a excellent plugin developer this past week. It was not something I set out to do, but when a user of one of my plugins came to me with a problem they were having, it ended up taking a turn in a different direction.
WordPress 2.9.1 Update
WordPress 2.9.1 was released today. This release addresses a handful of minor issues as well as a “rather annoying problem where scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly due to incompatibilities with some hosts.”
Many of the fixes are cosmetic, so the urgency to upgrade it not as essential as it would be if there were security holes, but it is always a good practice to upgrade sooner than later. WordPress is tested by many developers and users throughout the community before it is released, and although there may be minor bugs here and there, the stable releases are pretty sound. Download 2.9.1 or upgrade automatically from the Tools->Upgrade menu in your blog’s admin area.