I somehow missed the WordPress 2.0.5 announcement, but did catch the Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 200611-10 posting on the gentoo-announce list. While I was thinking of it, I figured I’d go ahead and upgrade.
I was quite impressed, it literally took all of 60 seconds to do (if you don’t count making the file and database backups, that is). Mark Jaquith (now the official 2.0.x branch maintainer) put out an “unofficial” .diff for upgrading from 2.0.4 to 2.0.5. I don’t run the 2.x branch on this site, but I do on another and I gotta say thanks to Mark for making it so easy to upgrade.
It was really simple. I SSH’d in to my web host, cd’d to the directory of the WordPress 2.0.4 install, fired up wget to grab the .diff file, tested it (patch –dry-run -p0 < wordpress-2.0.4-to-2.0.5-changes.diff), verified there weren’t any errors, ran patch again (without –dry-run), and that was it. I refreshed my page, checked the headers, and sure enough, it’s WordPress 2.0.5.
It’s little stuff like this that makes my day. Thanks, Mark!
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