The WordPress developers have released an update to the popular WordPress blogging script. They are categorizing this update as critical so everyone is encouraged to update to this version as soon as possible.

For release notes concerning this, see:

http://wordpress.org/news/2010/12/3-0-4-update/

Users should be able to update their WordPress scripts on our servers very easily. Just log into the admin dashboard for your WordPress install and perform the automatic update.

Steven

A vulnerability in Drupal has been discovered and users are encouraged to upgrade. For more information see Drupal’s website:

Drupal 6.16

Fantastico Users: Drupal 6.16 is not yet available from Fantastico. No word yet on when this update will be available.

Steven

WordPress release an update to their blogging script today:

WordPress 2.9.2

Fantastico Users: Still no word on when the Fantastico maintainers will release an update to their script library.

Steven

Version 2.8.6 of WordPress has been released. The release notes are linked below:

WordPress 2.8.6 Security Release

While this release does not appear to be a critical update, it is still recommended that all users update, just so there is no chance for possible exploitation. Users who have multi-author blogs are most affected by this.

Fantastico has not yet released an update with this. We will post again when Fantastico has updated.

Steven

WordPress 2.8.5 has been released. You can read the release notes for WordPress 2.8.5 below:

WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release

I was waiting for Fantastico to release an update with WordPress 2.8.5 before posting this. They have since done so. If you installed WordPress with Fantastico, you can also update it through the Fantastico link in your cPanel.

Steven