Download WordPress 2.1.3

Version 2.1.3 of WordPress was released today. WordPress is a piece of blogging software that is made available under the GPL license. The software says it can be made working within five minutes, if you already have a server with PHP and MySQL. In addition to ‘blogging’, it is also possible to further expand the functionality of WordPress and to adjust the appearance through plugins and themes. No new features have been added in this release, but several bug fixes have been made, including several minor cross-site scripting errors and a serious XML-RPC error. The release notes have the following to say about it:

WordPress 2.1.3

These releases include fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress codebase to protect against future problems. Many thanks to Sumit Siddharth and Alex Conch for their help with reporting issues in this release.

As an update to the systems issue we had last month, we have taken dozens of additional precautions with the servers and systems that run WordPress.org and they appear to be working well, despite hundreds of hack attempts after we publicly disclosed there had been a problem. We are also now aggressively monitoring all downloads for any changes or modifications, and we are confident the same type of problem won’t happen again.[break]The following downloads are available:
WordPress 2.1.3 (zip)
WordPress 2.1.3 (tar.gz)[break]