WordPress 2.0.6 Security update

WordPress just announced important security update 2.0.6 for public release. This will be the latest release in WP stable 2.0 line. Every WP users are recommended to upgrade. Here’s what’s new in 2.0.6–
- The aforementioned security fixes.
- HTML quicktags now work in Safari browsers.
- Comments are filtered to prevent them from messing up your blog layout.
- Compatibility with PHP/FastCGI setups.
Mark Jaquith have already explained the changes in WP 2.0.6 as always. Apart from these security fixes, there are couple of wonderful goodies for developers in this latest release. A new anti-XSS function called attribute_escape(), and a new filter called “query? which allows you filter any SQL at runtime will certainly make the WP developers green.
In the same announcement Matt also indicated that, this will be probably the last release before WordPress 2.1 is out, that means WP 2.1 just entered beta stage.
Mark Jaquith, WordPress Security update, WP 2.0.6