My PJW WordPress Version Check just went off, notifying me that my installs are now out of date, bugging me to upgrade.
Per the WP Website:
We have a security update release now available for both the 2.1 and 2.0 branches of WordPress now available for immediate download. This update is highly recommend for all users of both branches.
These releases include fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress codebase to protect against future problems. Many thanks to Sumit Siddharth and Alex Concha for their help with reporting issues in this release.
As an update to the systems issue we had last month, we have taken dozens of additional precautions with the servers and systems that run WordPress.org and they appear to be working well, despite hundreds of hack attempts after we publicly disclosed there had been a problem. We are also now aggressively monitoring all downloads for any changes or modifications, and we are confident the same type of problem won’t happen again.
So guess what I’ll be doing over the next few days! ;)
Rick
Sheesh, I run three blogs, and it seems all I do sometimes is upgrade WordPress. Oh well, better than have somebody hack into my account, I suppose. Thanks for the notice. I didn’t have anything better to do tonight anyway.
Ben
I wish someone somewhere would write some kind of auto-update function/app. Because i’m so lazy when it comes to upgrading.
Nicki
@Rick: heh, no problem. I didn’t read into their post as it’s anything hackable, but then again I haven’t seen any specifics posted yet as to what the “issues” actually were.
@Ben: There is, but I can’t for the life of me remember the name of it. If I run across it again, I’ll post it for you!
Me personally, I’d prefer to do upgrades myself … but if you have more than one install, it does get a little tedious after a while. ;P
Ben
I got 2 active sites, 1 test site and a couple more in the works so it is a bit of a boring full day job sometimes.