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Yesterday afternoon Automattic released WordPress 3.0 to the public.

While it’s an exciting upgrade, we are not recommending that you upgrade your sites at this time.

We are often hesitant to upgrade on what we call “zero” releases and tend to wait til the bugs shake out a bit before applying these types of updates to live blogs. Once 3.0.1 comes out, however, we will be happy to assist anyone who wants an upgrade at that time (we’re sure it won’t be long).

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The ContentRobot team really enjoyed WordCamp Boston this past Saturday. Here’s what we liked best:

1. Meeting Other Passionate WordPress Developers: The RocketGenius team, developers of the awesome Gravity Forms plugin, are a smart, fun bunch. We look forward to working with them more.
2. Shaking Hands With One of Our Favorite Clients: Nine Lives Media’s Amy Katz took part in a session called “WordPress Powers My Startup” and she rocked it. We finally got to meet her for the first time ever and it was very cool.
3. Cool Giveaways: The schwag was really nice,

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Sometimes its the surprise gifts that are the best. While not exactly under our tree, we woke up to read that Automattic released WordPress 2.9 yesterday (here’s is the official announcement).

What comes in the shiny, new package?:

• Global undo/”trash” feature - bring back any posts and comments that were accidentally deleted (Matt Mullenweg said this was his favorite feature at WordCamp NY last month)
• Built-in image editor – crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images as you are writing (we’ve been waiting for this one for a while)
• Batch plugin update and compatibility checking –

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It’s a great time to upgrade your WordPress blog today. Automattic has released 2.8.6, which patches some more security holes. According to WordPress’s blog:

2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges.  If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.

The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This discovered by Benjamin Flesch.  The second problem, discovered by Dawid Golunski, is an issue with sanitizing uploaded file names that can be exploited in certain Apache configurations. Thanks to Benjamin and Dawid for

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It’s another WordCamp event for the ContentRobot team … we’re headed to NYC tomorrow and can’t wait!

Like at WordCamp Las Vegas, we will be helping at the Genius Bar on Saturday from 12pm-1pm. Grab your lunch and try to stump us with your most perplexing WordPress questions!

Whether you are a newbie (we have a book for that by the way) or a veteran blogger, we can’t wait to meet you. We are looking forward to mingling with themers, developers, and passionate WordPress folks.