The first maintenance fix for WordPress 2.7 has been released this morning, it’s a fairly big one addressing a whole slew of minor issues. You can update automatically using the WP admin tool (which is cool to see) and it’s also nice to see that Matt’s decided not  to force self hosted blogs to write WordPress correctly (yet).

What did it fix?

1. Update Inline Documentation for get_gmt_from_date() 
2. Inline Documentation for wp-admin/includes Files 
3. edit link form typo 
4. “Right Now” dashboard box needs a clearing break at the bottom 
5. Word 2007 can’t retrieve categories 
6. URL column in Edit Links removes www. from domains that end in www. 
7. Remove empty “By: ” line for plugins without an author specified 
8. Permalink box below Title shouldn’t shift page 
9. index.php file in the plugins folder makes the Dashboard fail 
10. Add new link fails silently 
11. Please add get_previous_comments_link() and get_next_comments_link() functions. 
12. New installs: admin has user_level 0 
13. XMLRPC returns category name instead of category description 
14. Bad Preview Link In WordPress 2.7 With object-cache.php present 
15. Theme preview fails when theme in subdirectory 
16. Attempts to use curl cause warnings on some hosts 
17. Automatic plugin ftp value stored improperly if FTP failed. causing function to break for good 
18. Tag not closed in theme editor when the file does not have a description 
19. If you’re using paged coments, ‘first’ is selected in the options and wp_list_comments is used, then the comment permalinks on the first page will be broken 
20. POST-request, but content-length missing -> 411 
21. show_name docs say it defaults to 1, but it defaults to 0 
22. Tag cloud order priority is broken 
23. With wp_list_categories child categories not excluded when parents are excluded 
24. Namespace missing in Atoms-Comments Feed 
25. Emoticons count as links in comments 
26. Wrong Paged Comments Logic 
27. Improvements to is_ssl() 
28. Canonical redirect of feed URLs with suffixes is wrong 
29. postbox-bg.gif is missing 
30. WP-Cron Inline Doc Corrections 
31. Missing capability to override Walker_Cat* 
32. Contributor level users can delete all spam 
33. phpdoc updates for secret-key in pluggable.php 
34. phpdoc updates for wp_generate_password 
35. “selected” argument doesn’t work for “none” and “all” options in wp_dropdown_categories 
36. php notices in debug mode for mass post edit 
37. Remove paging information from Atom comment feed ids 
38. wp_page_menu doesn’t seem to get link_before link_after 
39. attach logic is overenthusiastic: inserting a single item from Media Library sets post_parent of every item listed in Add Media overlay 
40. WP reinstaller doesn’t work 
41. Pages do not respect Automatically close comments setting 
42. language_attributes always check for ‘xhtml’, never for ‘html’ 
43. ‘Draft Saved’ current_time not reflecting timezone setting in the edit area 
44. Upgrade or install 2.7 clean urls defect with magic quotes 
45. Distinguish between approved / unapproved comments in All Comments list for IE7 
46. Backwards compatability for add_management_page inadvertently strips other URL params 
47. Multiple categories in rss feed broken in wordpress 2.7 
48. Error in URL checking in http.php 
49. Active plugins table rows are not highlighted 
50. Add white-space:nowrap to plugins table action links 
51. javascript error in thickbox viewing updatable plugins (TB_WIDTH is undefined) 
52. Error in function paginate_comments_links with permalinks 
53. function get_categories() doesn’t work properly when using child_of and number parameters 
54. Add class to “comment-reply-link” to facilitate JS manipulation 
55. ACP: fatal error when a plugin issues chdir() 
56. Gears install link should be available to every user 
57. jQuery/Thickbox Issue IE7/8 
58. MT import causes empty feed 
59. Add class to “edit_comment_link” and “edit_post_link” 
60. Regular expression syntax errors – missing preg pattern delimiters 
61. When accessing admin dashboard over https the use of gravatars makes the security appear broken 
62. Add a filter to the post states list 
63. Revisions do not respect time zone offset 
64. WordPress produces invalid comment feeds 
65. role & capabilities/menu/user_can_access_admin_page() 
66. XML RPC method bug in 2.7 in wp_newComment() 
67. Refactored filters to avoid potential XSS attacks 
68. Drafts are published in the past 

While upgrading to the most recent version of WordPress is a fairly painless process, I appreciate that there are a lot of people who are not technically focussed. If you’d like a hand upgrading WordPress to the most recent version, drop me a line and I’ll happily do it for you.