Aug 15 2008

WordPress 2.6.1 Released

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WordPress 2.6.1 was just released and it’s not major release just a minor maintenance release to touch up on the WordPress 2.6 release, it’s mentioned that if your happy with WordPRess 2.6 you may skip the release.

WordPress 2.6.1 offers mostly improvements for international users. Styling of the admin for right-to-left languages is much improved thanks to the efforts of the Farsi and Hebrew translation teams, and a mysterious gettext bug caused by certain PHP configurations is now fixed. For IIS users, 2.6.1 fixes several permalink problems. Image insertion problems in the Press This feature experienced by IE users are also fixed. Of note to everyone is a fix for a performance bug in the admin where those with a lot of plugins would experience slowness on some pages.

You may wish to check out the full list of over 60 fixes to see if WordPress 2.6.1 has anything to offer you. A full diff and list of changed files is also available.

As I am using the Automatic upgrade WordPress plugin I dont see why I should not upgrade which took a total of 2minutes to do just now….Always best to keep on top of WordPress updates.

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    1. Blog for Beginners said:

      I have just updated mine to WP 2.6 and it has released the new package. I think I’m going to miss this one and wait for WP 2.7.

      Yan

      August 15th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
    2. Simon said:

      @yan

      It’s a very minor update so you can miss with no major issues

      August 16th, 2008 at 1:22 am

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