Download WordPress 2.0.5

WordPress is a piece of blogging software made available under the GPL license. The software says it can be made working within five minutes. In addition to ‘blogging’, it is also possible to expand WordPress through plugins and themes. Yesterday the developers released a new version of the weblog software posted online and provided it with version numbering 2.0.5 – also called ‘Ronan’ by the developers. What changes have been made in WordPress 2.0.5 can be found at this page. Mark Jaquith, one of the developers who is very involved in the development of WordPress and is responsible for the 2.0 branch, has an overview on his weblog placed from the changelog:

Here are some of the changes coming in WordPress 2.0.5:

• is_feed() status is preserved when handling 404s #3019 [4227]
• manually entering pages greater than the number of pages for a given post now shows the highest numbered page #3039 [4228]
• improved security in wp-db-backup plugin [4226]
• user description is no longer HTML-entity converted going into the database #3069 [4230]
• fix for rel=”nofollow nofollow” rehearsal #2995 [4233]
• plugins are sorted by plugin name, instead of filename #2412 [4323] [4324]
• multi-line options in /wp-admin/options.php are preserved #2456 [4331]
• the authors dropdown is now sorted by display_name #2370 [4365]
• the_meta() properly ignores keys that start with an underscore #2478 [4368]
• post meta keys and data are escaped properly on the post screen [4376]
• users are prevented from entering strings that will be interpreted as serialized data when coming out of the database #2591 [4384] [4395]
• make_clickable() no longer adds links within links #3228 [4385] [4387]
• error suppression #2331 [4341]#2745 [4328]#1999 [4315]#2759 [4287]#3179 [4280]
• i18n fixes #3109 [4239]