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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.

WordPress has had a heck of a time trying to stay ahead of evil hackers following the summer of exploits.

Unfortunately, several of our clients had been among those affected, but everyone got back up and running with an upgrade and some deep cleaning.

While version 2.8.4 has been a nice stable offering,  WordPress announced that 2.8.5 or “The  Hardening Release” is now available for download.

According to WP:

The headline changes in this release are:

• A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
• Removal of areas within the code where

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WordPress prides itself with its open source model because they have hundreds of people all over the world working on the software at a given time. It also means that WP is free for the taking (as well as enhancing and using it any way you wish).

Automattic (WordPress’s parent company) has encouraged theme and plugin developers to follow this same mantra, yet there has been some uproar (which we will not get into) about the fact that these coders put their hearts and soul into their work and get little back in terms of monetary reward.

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