Download WordPress 2.0.6

Veteran Moartn points out that the team behind WordPress has just released a new version in the form of 2.0.6. has put online. The update can be done by clicking on this link downloaded as a tarball and has a small number of security updates and three improvements. WordPress is a piece of blogging software that is made available under the GPL license. The software says it can run within five minutes on a computer with PHP and MySQL. In addition to ‘blogging’, it is also possible to expand WordPress through plugins and themes. WordPress 2.0.6 is expected to be the last version of the 2.0 branch, as work has recently begun on the 2.1 beta series. Below are the release notes of version 2.0.6 posted:

We have a pretty important release available for everyone, it includes an important security fix and it’s recommended that everyone upgrade. This is the latest release in our stable 2.0 line, which we’ve committed to maintaining for several more years. Here’s what’s new:

• The aforementioned security fixes.
• HTML quick tags now work in Safari browsers.
• Comments are filtered to prevent them from messing up your blog layout.
• Compatibility with PHP/FastCGI setups.

For developers, there’s a new anti-XSS function called attribute_escape(), and a new filter called “query” which allows you filter any SQL at runtime. (Which is pretty powerful.) Thanks to Mark Jaquith for handling this release and Stefan Esser for responsibly reporting the security issue.

As a side note, this is probably our last release before 2.1 is out, which will be our first major feature release in quite a while. 2.1 just entered beta stage, so if you’re interested in helping out with that process consider joining our beta group. As a reminder, if you’re a plugin or theme author you should check your code to make sure it’s compatible with 2.1 before the release.