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Finally, WordPress 2.7 has been released by WordPress Team. This version is named “Coltrane” for famed jazz Saxophonist, John Coltrane, a favorite of sax playing, WordPress founder, Matt Mullenweg.

There are a lot of new features and improvements, including the new interface and the latest security updates. Check out this video to learn more about WordPress 2.7 :

I have updated my blog to WordPress 2.7 and I recommend you to do an upgrade for your blog now due to some reasons below:

• Your blog will be protected from security vulnerabilities.
• Your blog plugins - themes will be updated quickly and easily.
• Some search engines and web directories are considering penalizing page rank or not indexing old versions of WordPress due to security vulnerabilities and failure to upgrade (few spam sites upgrade). For more information, see Technorati: Vulnerable WordPress Blogs Not Being Indexed, Matt Cutts: Alerting Webmasters to Webserver Vulnerabilities, Fear, Uncertainty and Disinformation About The WordPress Exploits and Spam, and WordPress Security Prevention, Reactions, and Scares.

If you are using the Release Candidates, you will be noticed by the upgrade announcement on your blog. Before upgrading, you don't need to de-activate all installed plugins, this step is no longer necessary because WordPress 2.7 will automatically put your blog in maintenance mode, the upgrading process will perform well.

For more details about whether or not WordPress 2.7 will work with your hosting or themes or plugins, you can read below:

• WordPress 2.7 Core Update Host Compatibility
• WordPress 2.7 Plugin Compatibility
• WordPress 2.7 Theme Compatibility

Download WordPress 2.7 now

Yesterday, WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1 (RC 1) has just been released by WordPress.org. This version comes with new interface and new icon set. Bellow is the quote from WordPress.org Blog:

With the release of RC1, we’re in the final leg of development before the release of 2.7.  280 commits since beta 3 have polished the new admin UI (including new menu icons created by the winners of our icon design contest) and fixed all known blocker bugs.

We think RC1 is ready for everyone to try out.  Please download RC1 and help us make the final release the best it can be.  As always, back up your blog before upgrading.

Screenshot of WordPress 2.7 RC1 with new icon set. It's so cool!

I recommend you to update to this version now. But before updating, don't forget to backup your blog database first!

Download WordPress 2.7 RC 1.

WordPress 2.6.5 is immediately available and fixes one security problem and three bugs, here is a list of the changes in detail:

• Added a check for the correct post_type to blogger.editPost and blogger.deletePost (#8267).
• Updates to update_post_meta() and delete_post_meta() to ensure they work correctly with post revisions and don’t create the meta on the revision instead of the post (#7925).
• Protection for a very difficult to exploit XSS issue (#8291).
• Fix for an XSS issue with the Atom and RSS feeds on some hosting setups ([9754], [9770]).

For a complete list of all the changes, you can read this section of the branches/2.6 log on the WordPress bug tracker. WordPress.org recommends everyone upgrade to this release.

Note that we have skipping version 2.6.4 and jumped from 2.6.3 to 2.6.5 to avoid confusion with a fake 2.6.4 release that made the rounds.

There is not and never will be a version 2.6.4

It looks like WordPress is making their job so nicely with 2.7. If you have used Beta 1 or 2, don't forget to update to this Beta 3 via Tools -> Update menu because there’s over 160 changes. Here are a few:

• Dashboard widget options now properly save.
• Numerous style improvements and refinements.
• All admin notices now go under the page title.
• PHP Notice fixes.
• Menu fixes.
• New design for Quick Edit.
• Canonical feed URL fixes.
• Walker fixes.
• An update for Hello Dolly.
• Plugin installer updates.
• Numerous font updates.
• Updated login logo.
• Switch position of “Save Draft” and “Preview” buttons in publish module.
• File upload support for MS Office 2007+ file formats.
• Media upload buttons won’t show if the user doesn’t have the upload capability.
• Canonical redirects only do yes-www or no-www redirection for domains.
• Shift-click checkbox range selection improvement.
• Add New User page now separate.
• Tag suggest only suggests tags (not other taxonomy terms).
• QuickPress shows “Submit for Review” if user cannot publish.
• Private posts/pages, and password-protected posts/pages are rolled into new “Visibility” section of publish module.

Click here to download WordPress Beta 3 and enjoy !