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WordPress 2.1 has been released and apparently if you are a WP developer you will love this release. The release announcement states:

“Developers will especially love this release, as it has much cleaner code than 2.0 and includes hundreds of enhancements that will enable a new generation of richer plugins. Here’s a taste of some of the things included:

• Psuedo-cron functionality let’s you schedule events much like cron.
• Users admin can now comfortably handle hundreds of thousands of users.
• The new WP_Error class cleans up how we do error reporting and handling.
• The javascript loader makes it easier for plugins to include rich functionality.
• Tons of new hooks and APIs.
• We’ve started to fill out our code inline documentation.
• Image and thumbnail API allows for richer media plugins.
• Custom header, color picker, and image cropping framework.”

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It is time for a new release of the Social Bookmarks plugin. With the release of WordPress 2.1, the way that WordPress defines a page has changed. Therefore, the code that retrieves the site pages and displays them in the plugin configuration page had to be modified.

Also, the plugin is now ‘clever enough’ to figure out whether you are running WP 2.1 or WP 2.0.x and deal with the pages accordingly.

Finally, this release introduces the facility to manually position the plugin from your theme.

You can download the new version from the Social Bookmarks page.

The WordPress development team has made available WordPress 2.1 which is the long-awaited major revision of their blogging software.
A couple days ago WordPress 2.0.7 was released but the 2.0.x releases include only bug and security fixes. The version 2.1 includes over 550 bug fixes and introduces a number of new features.
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An updated version of WordPress is now available (2.0.7). This update is released just ten days after the release of 2.0.6. The reason for this update is a vulnerability that resides in the Zend Engine (the PHP core) that has huge impact on the security of PHP scripts. Additional techinal details on the PHP vulnerability can be found on the site of the Hardened-PHP project.

The WordPress team has worked around the issue of providing us with a fix that addresses the PHP security problem and the Feedburner problem that was identified in 2.0.6. It is recommended that everyone running WordPress 2.0.6 or lower upgrade to this new version.

Here are the changes that have been made since 2.0.6:

• Security fix for wp_unregister_GLOBALS() to work around the zend_hash_del_key_or_index bug in PHP 4 versions less than 4.4.3 and PHP 5 versions less than 5.1.4 with register_globals set to “On.”
• Feeds now properly serve 304 Not Modified headers instead of mismatched 200/304 headers (a.k.a. the FeedBurner bug)
• Backport of another 304 Not Modified fix from WordPress 2.1
• Deleting WordPress Pages no longer gives an “Are You Sure?” prompt.
• After deleting a WordPress Page, you are now properly redirected to the Edit Pages screen.
• Sending an image at original size in Internet Explorer no longer adds an incorrect “height” attribute.