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When I dipped in to upgrade some plugins this evening, my dashboard kindly told me that I needed to upgrade from WordPress 2.6.2 to WordPress 2.6.3. Get the latest version here.

In short, it seems that the library used to fetch the dashboards feeds, named Snoopy, has a vulnerability and this upgrade fixes that.

So, if you are running WordPress 2.6.2 or earlier (especially if you are running an earlier version) then you should upgrade soonest.

Another quick heads up peeps.  WordPress 2.6.2 is out and you should update ASAP - especially if you

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allow registrations on your blog.
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Quick Note: WordPress 2.6.1 is out.  If you are running an older version, especially if you haven’t even

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gone to 2.6.0 yet, you should upgrade - you’re missing out on new functionality and you may be at risk of having your site taken over.
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It’s been a while since I wrote anything here, but here are two important announcements for anyone running the .org version of Wordpress.

Firstly, WordPress 2.6 is now out.  There are, as usual, lots of new things in this release and they ae all listed here.  One thing I noticed is that I have had to add to my .htaccess file because all my previous URLs stopped working.  For example, the URL to this post is http://www.lostaddress.org/2008/07/17/wordpress-26-spam-karma-2/ and under the previous release of WP, the URL would have been http://www.lostaddress.org/index.php/2008/07/17/wordpress-26-spam-karma-2/ - spot the difference?  If you were using a similar method, make sure you check your links!  So download it, install it and check out the changes (and fix things where necessary).
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For all those of us running WordPress.org, just a heads up to say that a point released is available. 

Previous big number release was 2.5 and this is 2.5.1.

The Developer’s Blog has full details of the reasons for this upgrade, but in short:
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While having a quick look at my dashboard, I noticed that WordPress has now released version 2.5.  And they’ve made a load of changes to it under the hood.  These changes can all be found by going to the WordPress.org development blog.

If you wish to install it, go to the download area and do what comes naturally.  From my point of view, a few things that appeared broken on my blog are now fixed: I can use the pop up to insert links again and activating plugins no longer horribly leaves me unable to use the dashboard.

You won’t see much change on the blog itself, but the dashboard appears to me to be a little tidier and more intuitive.