I’m all upgraded up and hopefully shouldn’t be subject to any new exploit for three or four more days.
Lots of people have been griping about the 10 day gap between updates that were both to patch serious security flaws. I feel for the developers because it’s not always easy to things 100% right. Beyond that a release means that a whole heap of Wordpress installs need to be updated so you’re putting a significant workload out there to a lot of people. That’s not likely to garner any warm fuzzy feelings from the community in general.
Wordpress 2.1 is supposed to be coming out soon too. They’re going to be requiring MySQL 4.0 which at least is better than the 4.1 requirement they were shooting for. I happen to be one of those people relying on a 4.0 install and I’m on a host that has a very large number of people on it. Safe to say I wouldn’t be the only one stuck in a position where I’d need to stick with an old version if they had gone with 4.1.
While a new release holds lots of promises with lots of neat features, it also will most assuredly break some of the plugins I use and enjoy. I suppose only time will tell as I’m only going to move to it once they’re finished all their testing and have a final release ready for mass consumption.
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1 Ian // Jan 18, 2007 at 11:31 am
I’m a little surprised by that.
4.1 is where unicode support comes in. Hell, even Debian stable uses MySQL 4.1 now, I’m surprised your host is still back on 4.0 … well, unless it’s one of those hosts that still thinks PHP3 is a good idea.
2 Marc // Jan 18, 2007 at 2:53 pm
They’re running PHP 4.
I’m pretty laid back when it comes to this kind of stuff so I’m not surprised that I’ve gone with someone who’s a bit behind. So long as it works I’m a happy man. Aside from Wordpress and associated plugins, everything on my account is custom, so if they fall so far back that you can’t run Wordpress, I’m sure I’ll be one of thousands of people complaining/relocating