Release: Wordpress 2.0.5 Ronan

[wildduck]

http://wordpress.org/download/

It?s new release time. The latest in our venerable 2.0 series, which now counts over 1.2 million downloads, is available for download immediately, and we suggest everyone upgrade athis includes security fixesb>. We?re breaking the tradition of naming releases after jazz musicians to congratulate Ryan Boren on his new son (and first WP baby) Ronan.

What?s new? We have about 50 or so bugfixes, which you can review on our dev tracker here, mostly minor bug fixes around feeds, custom fields, and internationalization. If you?d like a nitty-gritty view, check out Mark?s blog post on the changes.

Source: http://wordpress.org/development/2006/10/205-ronanChanges in WordPress 2.0.5

2.0.5

Here are some of the changes coming in WordPress 2.0.5:

* is_feed() status is preserved when handling 404s #3019 [4227]

* manually entering pages greater than the number of pages for a given post now shows the highest numbered page #3039 [4228]

* improved security in wp-db-backup plugin [4226]

* user description is no longer HTML-entity converted going into the database #3069 [4230]

* fix for rel="nofollow nofollow" repetition #2995 [4233]

* default category is no longer checked by default #2938 [4310] (Saving this one for 2.1? won?t be in 2.0.5 final)

* plugins are sorted by plugin name, instead of filename #2412 [4323] [4324]

* multi-line options in /wp-admin/options.php are preserved #2456 [4331]

* the authors dropdown is now sorted by display_name #2370 [4365]

* the_meta() properly ignores keys that start with an underscore #2478 [4368]

* post meta keys and data are escaped properly on the post screen [4376]

* users are prevented from entering strings that will be interpreted as serialized data when coming out of the database #2591 [4384] [4395]

* make_clickable() no longer adds links within links #3228 [4385] [4387]

* error suppression #2331 [4341], #2745 [4328], #1999 [4315], #2759 [4287], #3179 [4280]

* i18n fixes #3109 [4239]

This is not an exhaustive list? just the important ones, or the ones I thought people would care about.

Testers, check the wp-testers list. There is a release candidate for you to try out.

Source:http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2006/10/1...-wordpress-205/

[Rappy Veteran]

Thanks I knew it was coming just wasn't sure when.

[soothsayer]

Yeah, I just completely messed up my blog when I upgraded. I'm pretty sure I made some crazy mistake, but I couldn't even do a fresh install with a new database. Weird. I'm back to running 2.04 'till I figure out what went/is wrong.

[Techno_Funky]

Thanks for the heads up :)

[Deus]

I couldnt update it either.. When I try to run upgrade.php nothing happens and on the main page all I see is "?>"...

I'll also stick with 04 until I know what's up.

[Jase]

so just bug fixes, no new features have been added yet?

[MindTooth]

Downloaded and upgraded :D

[Sam]

Oh the joys of running a SVN version of Wordpress.

SVN update

done ;)

[Copernic Reporter]

Thanks, all i need now is a free Wordpress host, the best one around, any idea?

[fanboynz]

how do you upgrade a previous version of wordpress to the latest?

[soothsayer]

Thanks, all i need now is a free Wordpress host, the best one around, any idea?

I don't know of any good free hosts. But you could always get a free blog at www.wordpress.com You don't get the ability to customize it as much (I think), but hey, it's free and they do all the maintenance for you.

how do you upgrade a previous version of wordpress to the latest?

Very, very carefully ;)

I would read through these instructions before attempting the upgrade.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress

Note: The upgrade instructions themselves haven't been updated yet to detail an upgrade from 2.04 to 2.05. They should be pretty close though. At the very least, I would backup your database.

I'm still not sure what happened when I tried updating mine. But I hope to figure it out soon.

[Veedems Veteran]

Thanks for the heads up. Now I have to find the one damn core file I edit for my template. I always forget which one it is lol.

[wildduck]

Thanks for the heads up. Now I have to find the one damn core file I edit for my template. I always forget which one it is lol.

Warning: main(./Forums/conf_global.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /.../index.php on line 104 :cry:

yup....it must has been the wrong core file :whistle:

[asdfoi83wyrl]

Thanks for the news (Y)

[Veedems Veteran]

Warning: main(./Forums/conf_global.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /.../index.php on line 104 :cry:

yup....it must has been the wrong core file :whistle:

Well, that's not good. It was working fine before and I haven't touched anything since.

edit: seems like it was a server hiccup. 2 connections were left unproperly closed to my database. Just had to do a quick repair and it works.

[Echilon]

It'll take alot more than bugfixes to make me want to go through the trouble of upgrading again.

[thollian]

I keep getting this error after upgrading...any suggestions on how to fix it?

The document has moved here.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

[Veedems Veteran]

It'll take alot more than bugfixes to make me want to go through the trouble of upgrading again.

Unless you customize core files, there's almost no hassle at all. Not upgrading is very detrimental to your setup, especially when someone decides they don't like you.