WordPress 1.5.2

Announcing WordPress 1.5.2, now available for download. Owen Winkler has a good plain-English description of the changes.

There is a security-related bugfix in this release, which affects servers that have register_globals turned on (which you shouldn’t). If this is the case for your server, or if you aren’t sure, then you definitely should upgrade.

Other changes include:

• New API hooks relating to comment notification emails
• New category-related API hooks
• Improvements to the RSS feed for comments
• Posting new articles is now faster
• There is now a “Save and Continue Editing” button for Pages, like there is for Posts
• Bugfixes related to posting via the XML-RPC interface (content encoding, categories, and API hooks)
• Bugfixes for pingbacks (which were sometimes sent, even when turned off)
• Various and sundry other bugfixes and legacy code cleanups

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