Successfully Upgraded to Wordpress 2.8.5

By admin | Oct 27, 2009

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Finally just upgraded my Wordpress to the current version of Wordpress 2.8.5

It is recommended for each and everyone of you to upgrade to the latest version for the bug fixing and security protection purpose. The followings are the latest updates for the latest version.

The headline changes in this release are:

A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.

Here are some direct quotes from Wordpress:

We would recommend that all sites are upgraded to this new version of WordPress to ensure that you have the best available protection.

If you think your site may have been hit by one of the recent exploits and you would like to make sure that you have cleared out all traces of the exploit then we would recommend that you take a look at the WordPress Exploit Scanner. This is a plugin which searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames. You can read more about this plugin here – “WordPress Exploit Scanner“

I did not use any automated upgrade for this time, I manually follow step by step guides from the Upgrading Wordpress Extended. It is a successful without any problem, I suggest you all who hasn’t upgrade to do so.

If you face any problem in upgrading you can leave your comment and I’ll try my best to help out. Good luck ^^