WordPress releases 2.2.1 - now available for download
WordPress 2.2.1 has been released for download. 2.2.1 is both a bug fix release as well as a security upgrade for the 2.2 series.
Since the release of 2.2 (aka Getz) a month ago, the WordPress community has been improving fit-and-finish by identifying and fixing those little bugs that can be so annoying and by fine-tuning some small details. The result is a nicely polished 2.2.1 release.
The full list of bugs fixed in 2.2.1 is available here.
Here are some highlights for this version.
- Atom feed validation fixes (#4274, #4307, #4381, #4382)
- XML-RPC fixes (#4314, #4329, #4315, #4469)
- Widget backward compatibility fixes (#4275)
- Widget layout fixes for IE7 (#4264, #4268)
- Page and Text Widget improvements (#4302, #4259)
As mentioned above, 2.2.1 is not just a bug fix release. Some security issues came to light during 2.2.1 development, making 2.2.1 a required upgrade. 2.2.1 addresses the following vulnerabilities:
- Remote shell injection in PHPMailer
- Remote SQL injection in XML-RPC Discovered by Alexander Concha.
- Unescaped attribute in default theme
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