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From WordPress.org:
Version 4.9 of WordPress, named “Tipton” in honor of jazz musician and band leader Billy Tipton, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. New features in 4.9 will smooth your design workflow and keep you safe from coding errors.
I first thought: “Tipton, Glenn Tipton.”
By the way, when are they going to get to “Van Halen”?
If only I were the one in charge of naming WordPress…
Time to get your WordPress updated, again.
The database is restored, kinda. About 3 percents of posts were not in the backup. In addition to that, the posts are missing the “Featured Image” which looks kinda funny with the current theme used.
All in all, 37prime.news is functional again.
From WordPress.org:
WordPress 4.4.1 Security and Maintenance Release
WordPress 4.4.1 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.
WordPress versions 4.4 and earlier are affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability that could allow a site to be compromised. This was reported by Crtc4L.
More importantly:
There were also several non-security bug fixes:
- Emoji support has been updated to include all of the latest emoji characters, including the new diverse emoji! 👍🏿👌🏽👏🏼
That’s great news for those who wants to use this emoji character: 🖕
WordPress 4.1, named “Dinah” is now available. New theme, Twenty-Fifteen is included in this release.
WordPress 4.0.1 is out now.
- Three cross-site scripting issues that a contributor or author could use to compromise a site. Discovered by Jon Cave, Robert Chapin, and John Blackbourn of the WordPress security team.
- A cross-site request forgery that could be used to trick a user into changing their password.
- An issue that could lead to a denial of service when passwords are checked. Reported by Javier Nieto Arevalo and Andres Rojas Guerrero.
- Additional protections for server-side request forgery attacks when WordPress makes HTTP requests. Reported by Ben Bidner (vortfu).
- An extremely unlikely hash collision could allow a user’s account to be compromised, that also required that they haven’t logged in since 2008 (I wish I were kidding). Reported by David Anderson.
- WordPress now invalidates the links in a password reset email if the user remembers their password, logs in, and changes their email address. Reported separately by Momen Bassel, Tanoy Bose, and Bojan Slavković of ManageWP.
I would say that it is mandatory to update your WordPress installation, because of these important security fixes.
