Below is a list of the changes in detail:

• Added a check for the correct post_type to blogger.editPost and blogger.deletePost (#8267).
• Updates to update_post_meta() and delete_post_meta() to ensure they work correctly with post revisions and don’t create the meta on the revision instead of the post (#7925).
• Protection for a very difficult to exploit XSS issue (#8291).
• Fix for an XSS issue with the Atom and RSS feeds on some hosting setups ([9754], [9770]).

Note that we have skipping version 2.6.4 and jumped from 2.6.3 to 2.6.5 to avoid confusion with a fake 2.6.4 release that made the rounds. There is not and never will be a version 2.6.4. Download WordPress 2.6.5 now.

Here are some of the smaller features and improvements in 2.6:

• Word count! Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.
• Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.
• Bulk management of plugins.
• A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.
• Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.
• Plugin update notification bubble.
• Customizable default avatars.
• You can now upload media when in full-screen mode.
• Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure (off) by default, but you can turn it on easily through the options screen.
• Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security.
• You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.
• Ability to move your wp-config file and wp-content directories to a custom location, for “clean” SVN checkouts.
• Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click.”
• You can toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.
• A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.
• Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.
• Version 2.6 fixes approximately 194 bugs.

Below is a brief video tour of version 2.6, it’s worth to watch:

In addition to the security fix, 2.5.1 contains many bug fixes. If you are interested only in the security fixes, you can download these corrected copies of wp-includes/pluggable.php, wp-admin/includes/media.php, and wp-admin/media.php. Replace your existing copies of these files with these new copies.
If you download the entire 2.5.1 release, you will be getting over 70 other fixes. 2.5.1 focuses on fixing the most annoying bugs and improving performance. Here are some highlights:

• Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
• Better performance for those who have many categories
• Media Uploader fixes
• An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
• Widget Administration fixes
• Various usability improvements
• Layout fixes for IE

After upgrading to WordPress 2.5, I have not encountered problems so far regarding all my plugins except for the WP-PostViews Version 1.20 plugin of LesterChan.net for which upgrading it to version 2.20 breaks the plugin because for some reason wp-dbmanager is showing as an upgrade for wp-postViews 1.20 Widget . Anyway, not upgrading the WP-PostViews 1.20 still worked for WordPress 2.5. So don’t upgrade it to version 2.20.

So far I have been enjoying the new WordPress 2.5, but not up to now for about a week now, the image upload functionality and the inserting of image to post have not been working for me. After clicking the upload button, the login appeared (image 1) and I typed in the account. It then goes back to the upload process, after clicking again the upload button, this time “HTTP error. An error occurred in the upload. Please try again later ” occurred after the crunching process (image 2). I have tested and tried so many times uploading images to all my blogs, but still can’t get through. I have been in constant contact with my web host but still no workaround as of the moment.

So I search on Google to look for solutions and fix for this bug. I then found out that, not only me, many also encountered this kind of WordPress 2.5 image uploading and inserting bug .

Summarizing the list that i found related with this image uploading bug :

• Upload progress gets “stuck”
• Upload fails with an HTTP error
• Upload box does not appear at all
• If the upload window does appear, images can’t be managed, added or inserted into your post

UPDATE: Here is my fix/workaround to this problem:

Disclaimer : This may not work for some blogs running WordPress 2.5 but hey, this fix and workaround worked for me fine.

1. CHMOD the wp-content/uploads folder to 775 or 777.

2. Disable the flash uploader by installing the no-flash-uploader plugin. Be sure to activate it after you upload it to your WordPress plugin folder.

3. Add this line to your root domain or subdomain .htaccess file (source)

SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI ^/wp-admin/async-upload.php$ MODSEC_ENABLE=Off

4. Clear your browsers cache

5. Then Log in to your WordPress Dashboard and try to upload and insert image to post.

I guess, this is all that you need to do. I have tried and tested this on Mozilla FireFox 2.0.0.14 and Safari 3.0.4 browsers. Another issue is regarding security risk of using MODSEC_ENABLE=Off to the file async-upload.php. I am not sure and have no idea what is the effect, risk or security issue of using MODSEC_ENABLE=Off. And I hope, this is not a big issue affecting the whole WordPress application.

I Hope this will help you and If you are still experiencing errors following this fix/workaround, feel free to comment and I will try my best to help. Please correct me if I miss something with this fix.

Regarding the issues of the plugins, good thing all my activated plugins worked as expected except for the WP-PostViews Version 1.20 plugin of LesterChan.net. He said that It still has some issues about the automatic update of the plugin using the dashboard as wp-dbmanager is showing as an upgrade for wp-postViews Widget. He warned about it by NOT Using the Automatic Plugin Upgrade in upgrading his plugins.

I have received several feedback that the Automatic Plugin Upgrade feature in WordPress is causing problem with my plugins.
I want to say that ALL my plugins currently will not work with the Automatic Plugin Upgrade feature because there is a problem with the path. It is a little difficult for me to explain it here.
The new version of my plugins that I am going to release on 1st June 2008 will address this issue. In another words, if are using 1.30 or 2.30 beta of my plugins, the problem has been solved.
So in the mean time, DO NOT use the Automatic Plugin Upgrade feature for my plugin.

So far, WordPress 2.5 looks great and will upgrade the rest of my blogs after this post. If you have a blog and still have not yet upgraded to WordPress 2.5, I highly recommend that you upgrade now.

How about you, What’s your take on upgrading to WordPress 2.5?

To quote for more User Features:
Cleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard
Dashboard Widgets
Multi-file upload with progress bar
Bonus: EXIF extraction
Search posts and pages
Tag management
Password strength meter
Concurrent editing protection
Few-click plugin upgrades
Friendlier visual post editor
Built-in galleries

For complete and full article of the new released WordPress 2.5, please check and read it here.  And also, please do check the WordPress main page for they have a new nice redesign of their site. I will be upgrading my blogs next week and be back here for more updates and hopefully my upgrading will be smooth.

To Quote:

A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times sound interesting? Then WordPress 2.5 might be the release for you. It’s been in the oven for a while, and we’re finally ready to open the doors a bit to give you a taste.
………………..
The software is basically done and stable, and could be released today, but we’d like to incorporate feedback from a wider audience before making it available to the general public. After a few days of your feedback we’ll set a final release date. Personally, I can’t wait.

Full Article about WordPress 2.5.

My web host blocked my site for about an hour because of the traffic surge it encountered and is using above the 10% limit for cpu resources. Good thing, Eugene is kind and helpful enough in unblocking my site and allowed me to fix my site by deactivating some plugins and by using the temporary default wordpress theme for the mean time so as to lessen the use of wordpress plugins. Before my site was blocked, I have monitored that there are around 200-300 guests/visitors accessing my site simultaneously. Wow my first time to experience such surge of traffic. Had I known and change my theme, earlier before the fight, to a simpler default wordpress theme, maybe my site could have handled the surge of traffic smoothly. Just maybe

Anyways, back to blogging and back to my normal and original theme again by wpthemesplugin.com. Holy week is here. How will you celebrate it?

This is just temporary. As the time the traffic stabilizes and lessens, I will revert back to my original wordpress theme. Please bare with the default wordpress theme layout. Thank you.

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Be back soon…. more one my new WordPress theme layout. Happy Valentine’s Day to all!