Wordpress announced 2.2.2 and 2.0.11 releases, which include security and minor bug fixes. Because of this, you’d better upgrade as soon as possible, because the upgrades won’t mess your plugins pr your themes.
Click to see the fixes for 2.2.2 and for 2.0.11.

View the official Wordpress announcement on the development blog.

The guys at WordPress announced that the 2.2.1 bug fix release for Wordpress 2.2 is now available. With the help of the community, they made some bug fixes, including:

* Atom feed validation fixes
* XML-RPC fixes
* Widget backward compatibility fixes
* Widget layout fixes for IE7
* Page and Text Widget improvements

But most important is that 2.2.1 is not just a bug fix release, because, while fixing some bugs, the Wordpress team found some security issues also and fixed them. Here are the vulnerabilities found and fixed:

* Remote shell injection in PHPMailer
* Remote SQL injection in XML-RPC Discovered by Alexander Concha.
* Unescaped attribute in default theme

So we advise you to upgrade to 2.2.1 as quick as possible. You can download it HERE.

This week Wordpress 2.2 was officially launched. Nicknamed Getz, in honor of tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, the new version includes a number of new features like:

* WordPress Widgets allow you to easily rearrange and customize areas of your weblog (usually sidebars) with drag-and-drop simplicity. This functionality was originally available as a plugin Widgets are now included by default in the core code, significantly cleaned up, and enabled for the default themes.

* Full Atom support, including updating our Atom feeds to use the 1.0 standard spec and including an implementation of the Atom Publishing API to complement our XML-RPC interface.

* A new Blogger importer that is able to handle the latest version of Google’s Blogger product and seamlessly import posts and comments without any user interaction beyond entering your login.

* Infinite comment stream, meaning that on your Edit Comments page when you delete or spam a comment using the AJAX links under each comment it will bring in another comment in the background so you always have 20 items on the page.

* The new version now protects you from activating a plugin or editing a file that will break your blog.

* Core plugin and filter speed optimizations should make everything feel a bit more snappy and lighter on your server.

* A hook for WYSIWYG support in a future version of Safari was added.

View the official Wordpress 2.2 launch post on the Wordpress blog, here.

Download Wordpress 2.2 here.

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