Wordpress Releases 2.3.1

Jeffro2pt0 · 10-26-2007, 07:52 PM

Wordpress 2.3.1 has been released for download. The latest version contains bug and security fixes. According to WordPress.org, 2.3.1 contains over twenty bug fixes. Some of fixes that are highlighted in this release are as follows: Tagging support for Windows Live Writer , Fixes for a login bug that affected those with a Blog Address different than their WordPress Address, Faster taxonomy database queries, especially tag intersection queries and Link importer fixes.

Unfortunately, some security issues were found in 2.3. Janek Vind found an XSS problem that can be exploited if your php setup has register_globals enabled. For this reason, upgrading to 2.3.1 is advised.
The full set of changes between 2.3 and 2.3.1 is available for viewing on trac.
Get 2.3.1 from the download page and enjoy.

I’ll be upgrading this site later tonight and will let you know how it went. If you upgrade this evening, let us know how it goes.

Malok · 10-27-2007, 03:01 PM

Any updates on your install?

I've heard that upgrading an existing wordpress site (like 2.2.1) can have its problems. Have those been addressed in 2.3.1?

Smaug · 10-28-2007, 02:07 AM

Here is more detailed list from westi

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Improvements to the email address extraction in wp-mail.php (#5169).
An improvement to the link manager to ensure that only user with the manage_links capability can access the page (#4627).
A security fix to ensure that edit-post-rows.php cannot be directly loaded to prevent XSS attacks when register_globals is enabled ([6258]).
Groupings in the SQL queries used during upgrade to remove errors on duplicate entries in the old post2cat and link2cat tables (#5223).
The Sender is set on emails to help on hosts that limit which email addresses can send (#5007).
Fixes to category assignment during link import from OPML (#5107)
Manifest file for Windows Live Writer so as to enable tagging support (#5023).
Performance improvements for the Taxonomy intersection queries (#5137).
Exclusion of the post previews from canonicalisation (#5203)
Improvements to the handling of the main query to ensure it is saved when calling wp() (#5121).
Fix the in-line uploader so that send to editor works with a blank title (#5080).
Removal of the case-sensitivity on host names of wp_safe_redirect() (#5114).
Changes to the load order in the javascript loader to ensure that Prototype is loaded before jQuery (#5067).
Enforcement of the same sanitisation rules for pages as for posts (#5135)

Jeffro2pt0 · 10-28-2007, 02:44 AM

Upgrade went smoothly. Nothing negative to report.

Silva · 10-28-2007, 03:29 PM

It´s perfect .

**cldnails** · 10-29-2007, 06:18 AM

Upgraded about half my blogs and I noticed something different about this update, that hadn't happened before. I did NOT have to upgrade my sql tables....?

click3 · 10-30-2007, 12:30 PM

I've upgraded two of my blogs already without a problem.

zinruss · 11-06-2007, 05:09 PM

The latest version adds support for a very hot search engine optimization tool: TAGGING. With built-in support for tagging and tag clouds, there is no longer a need for hard-to-configure plug-ins.

swapw · 11-11-2007, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by zinruss

The latest version adds support for a very hot search engine optimization tool: TAGGING. With built-in support for tagging and tag clouds, there is no longer a need for hard-to-configure plug-ins.

Interesting, didn't know about this...was definitely skeptical at first about the update. I definitely have to look into it myself. Hopefully it will rank good with my kw like Delicious.

-Swapw