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Tag: 3.0.0
Released 15 years ago
WordPress 3.0 "Thelonious" represents a major evolution in the platform's history, merging WordPress and WordPress MU into a single codebase. This release introduces custom post types, custom taxonomi...
Highlights:
- Merged WordPress and WordPress MU codebases into a single platform
- Introduced custom post types and taxonomies for specialized content
- Added a new menu management system for creating custom navigation menus
- +3 more...
Tag: 2.9.2
Released 16 years ago
WordPress 2.9.2 is a maintenance release that addresses several important bugs affecting decompression functionality, comment handling, search functionality, and admin menu accessibility. This update ...
Highlights:
- Fixed decompression issues that could affect plugin and theme installations
- Improved comment handling for future posts and password-protected content
- Enhanced admin menu accessibility for administrators
- +2 more...
Tag: 2.9.1
Released 16 years ago
WordPress 2.9.1 is a maintenance release that addresses multiple bugs and improves stability across the platform. This update fixes issues with UTF-8 character handling, image rotation functionality, ...
Highlights:
- Fixed UTF-8 character handling in text sanitization
- Improved image rotation functionality and UI
- Added confirmation dialog when deleting media files
- +3 more...
Tag: 2.9.0
Released 16 years ago
WordPress 2.9 "Carmen" introduces several significant enhancements including a new trash feature for posts, pages, and comments, post thumbnails, built-in image editor, oEmbed support, and various imp...
Highlights:
- New trash feature for posts, pages, and comments with recovery options
- Post thumbnails (featured images) support for posts and pages
- Built-in image editor with rotate, flip, and crop functionality
- +4 more...
Tag: 2.8.6
Released 16 years ago
WordPress 2.8.6 is a security-focused maintenance release that addresses critical vulnerabilities including an XSS issue in Press This and improves file upload security by sanitizing filenames with mu...
Highlights:
- Fixed XSS vulnerability in the Press This feature
- Improved file upload security by sanitizing filenames with multiple extensions
- Fixed MIME type checking for file uploads
Tag: 2.8.5
Released 16 years ago
WordPress 2.8.5 is a maintenance release that addresses several security vulnerabilities and bug fixes. This update improves file handling security, fixes PHP notices, restores default search engine v...
Highlights:
- Fixed security vulnerability by disabling unfiltered uploads for admins by default
- Restored default behavior of blogs appearing in search engines on installation
- Fixed attachment file downloads that were previously generating PHP notices
- +2 more...
Tag: 2.8.4
Released 16 years ago
WordPress 2.8.4 is a security release that addresses vulnerabilities in the password reset functionality. It enforces stricter validation of activation keys and improves the password reset process by ...
Highlights:
- Fixed security vulnerability in password reset functionality
- Improved validation of activation keys
- Enhanced user authentication process
Tag: 2.8.3
Released 16 years ago
WordPress 2.8.3 is a maintenance release that addresses several important bugs and security vulnerabilities. This update improves ping functionality to prevent excessive pinging, fixes comment-related...
Highlights:
- Improved ping functionality to prevent excessive pinging to update services
- Fixed comment author URL display when editing comments
- Enhanced security with additional capability checks
- +2 more...
Tag: 2.8.2
Released 16 years ago
WordPress 2.8.2 is a security-focused maintenance release that addresses several XSS vulnerabilities by properly implementing escaping functions for user-generated content. This update fixes issues wi...
Highlights:
- Fixed XSS vulnerability in feed widget title display
- Improved security by properly escaping comment author URLs
- Added proper escaping for comment author email addresses
- +1 more...
Tag: 2.8.1
Released 16 years ago
WordPress 2.8.1 is a maintenance release that addresses numerous bugs and performance issues from the 2.8 release. This update includes fixes for widget functionality, admin interface improvements, se...
Highlights:
- Fixed widget functionality issues including sidebar detection and widget instance ID handling
- Improved memory usage in SimplePie for better RSS feed performance
- Enhanced security with better redirect validation and plugin page access controls
- +2 more...