Wordpress 2.5.1 update available with over 70 bug fixes
There is a very used saying in Albanian, or expression if I can call it so which says “if you rush, you’ll get screwed“. It doesn’t rhyme in English but it’s meaning is powerful whatsoever. The WordPress 2.5 scenario is fully suitable with the above expression, but fortunately for us we didn’t get screwed, not yet at least. They’ve rushed to release the 2.5 milestone and now less than a month later an update is available for download which addresses over 70 bugs and performance enhancements.
Early when I posted about WordPress 2.5 final you would have noticed a citation about due in 22 years release interval which turned to be less than two days (in Automattic’s way of time calculation), but back than I’d wait for those very long 22 years to finish (not literally) and release a stable, completed, secure version rather than being hasty just to spread the word.
Ryan from the WordPress developers team announced today the first update of WordPress 2.5.x series while highlighting main changes, enhancements and fixes.
- Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
- Better performance for those who have many categories
- Media Uploader fixes
- An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
- Widget Administration fixes
- Various usability improvements
- Layout fixes for IE
According to his post, the team recommends us to immediately update, even if I don’t like messing with the system hourly, but who does ?
We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly.
Despite of all this we are forced to do so when our personal blog security is in question, so we just take the time and go for it. After all I wonder when the next unexpected update is going to come out.
Update: I would be amazed though and couldn’t even dare to say anything at all if by all means a new update would bring with an option to update WordPress from within the admin panel. Thumbs down to the old boring procedure.
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By Matt, April 26, 2008 @ 2:44 am
We always do a release a month later with bug fixes, for the past many years. 2.5 was not rushed, in fact it had twice as much time as most releases. It had 50,000 downloads of the beta and release candidate versions before 2.5.0 was ever released, a huge amount of testing. The security fix is important, the 70 bugs fixed are mostly trivial and edge cases only impacting a small number of users.
By Arian Xhezairi, April 26, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
Recommending everyone to update immediately is not trivial and even more everyone is not a small number. Doubtlessly WordPress 2.5 raised attention to all users, and the 50.000 amount is amazing, though I’m in that number for like 5 to 6 times.
Bytheway, I’d be honored to encourage you reply one of my 3 emails
but I’d be glad just to know that you read them at least. Thanks.
By Matt, April 29, 2008 @ 1:14 am
Your emails must have slipped by, could you resend and put [wordpress-resend] in the subject line? Sorry about that!