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WordPress 2.6.2 Release

By Dougal | Published: September 9, 2008

As most of you have probably already seen in your Dashboard, yesterday afternoon saw the official WordPress 2.6.2 Release. And as mentioned in the comments on my intitial news break on the 2.6.2 Beta, the focus is on two security patches to cover weaknesses in PHP’s random number generation (which affects password encryption strength), and in MySQL’s field length checking. [...]

Posted in Announcements, Community, WordPress | Also tagged Bugs, encryption, mt_rand, MySQL, PHP, random, Release, Security, truncation, WordPress | 8 Comments

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