Something about WP today

3 days ago when I logged into my Johnycow.com blog I noticed that there was a small strip of words on each page of the blog which mentioned that your Wordpress blog is outdated so please update. Just look at the image which is below( open in New Window or Tab)

As you know that Wordpress is the software which many of us use for our blogging activities , the small difference is there and that is themes , Many bloggers use custom theme for their blog and I promise that I will also use a custom made theme so that my blog is unique as well.

Ok I was talking about Wordpress today and many of you might have noticed that Wordpress 2.3.1 is now outdated and a new version i.e. 2.3.2 is available for download. What does this include ?

• Performance improvements for post sanitization when raw content is required (#5325).
• Changes to is_admin() to ensure that it is only true for admin pages thereby protecting against exposing draft posts. (#5487).
• Suppression of database errors unless WP_DEBUG is true (#5473).
• Check for valid database connection information during install and display and error if the install fails due to database rights (#5495).
• Support for a custom database down page to be displayed on database connection errors (#5500).
• Changes to make sure we are more selective in what we make clickable, this introduces different rules for different uri types ([6450]).
• Changes to wp-mail.php to escape the error messages when displaying them to avoid a possible XSS attack (#5484).
• Changes to ensure that the post password is only exposed by the xmlrpc method metaWeblog.getRecentPosts to users with rights to edit a post (#5535).
• Changes to the information exposed the wp.getAuthors xmlrpc method to reduce the information exposed and add a capabilites check (#5534).
• Addition of extra capabilities checks to xmlrpc methods ([6504]).
• Addition of extra capabilities checks to APP server ([6508]).
• Changes to validate_file() to improve its traversal attempt detection when running on windows ([6521]).

These are some of the important things which are available in Wordpress 2.3.2 and now I will be updating my Wordpress within a day or two when I get from the likes of New Year so who would like to upgrade their Wordpress within two days or so…..

Waiting for your answers.