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WP 2.2 is a mandatory upgrade for 2.1.3 users

Posted in 2.1.3, 2.2, software, upgrade, wordpress by Mark Jaquith on May 21st, 2007

Just a quick point of clarification. WordPress 2.2 is a mandatory security upgrade for WordPress 2.1.3 users. There will be no further releases in the 2.1.x branch. 2.2 includes security fixes that 2.1.3 lacks, so your only upgrade path is to 2.2.

The good news is that although a lot of under-the-surface code changed in 2.2, it’s not jarringly different from a usage standpoint. So if familiarity was holding you back from upgrading, it shouldn’t be.

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  3. carthik said, on May 23rd, 2007 at 6:10 pm

    Thank you for making this known. :)

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  13. WordPress said, on May 28th, 2007 at 2:44 am

    Along with the bug fixes, WordPress 2.2 brings new bugs to the table: wp_mail removes the Content-Type, you can’t remove widgets in Firefox and all widgets are used by default… etc. You can check the bug list at trac.wordpress.org
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  18. Claude Gelinas said, on June 1st, 2007 at 9:17 pm

    I’ve been using WP 2.2 for the last few days and honestly, from an author’s standpoint, I can hardly see any difference!

    I know there’s been a lot of work “under the hood” but upgrading from 2.1.3 has been painless… for me, at least.

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  29. jimisola said, on September 13th, 2007 at 6:29 am

    Mark, will you provide patches for 2.2.2 -> 2.2.3?

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