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Post of April the 3rd, 2007 (today) taken by the WordPress.org official blog:

WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.10
By Matt. Filed under Security, Releases.

We have a security update release now available for both the 2.1 and 2.0 branches of WordPress now available for immediate download. This update is highly recommend for all users of both branches.

These releases include fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress codebase to protect against future problems. Many thanks to Sumit Siddharth and Alex Concha for their help with reporting issues in this release.

As an update to the systems issue we had last month, we have taken dozens of additional precautions with the servers and systems that run WordPress.org and they appear to be working well, despite hundreds of hack attempts after we publicly disclosed there had been a problem. We are also now aggressively monitoring all downloads for any changes or modifications, and we are confident the same type of problem won’t happen again.

If you are on 2.1, it’s useless to do backups or something like it: the wp-admin/upgrade.php script will not touch the DB. So… update peacefully (and pleasantly). For the others still on 2.0.x: why not upgrade now?

Today is a great day ( ): I have added Google Page Rank calculation on the sidebar (→) of my weblog. It’s possible thanks to the PHP class “Google Page Rank Checker” by Emre Odabas, hosted on PHPClasses (the most important source-of-code-and-snippets for PHP Developers).

The class calculates “only” the integer value (between 1 and 10): the graphic representation is by me.

Actual Page Rank? 5!!! O_o

This web service software takes multiple word processor files (typically .doc) and converts them to OpenDocument and HTML.

Web Service receives .doc file and converts it to a Oasis OpenDocument 1.0 which can then be converted to HTML, RSS, or any XML format.

The resulting OpenDocument is then optionally converted to HTML or any XML. This is done with XML Pipelines, an approach that supports XSLT, breaking up content over headings or sections, and saving those results to multiple files (e.g., chapter1.html, chapter2.html…).

The result is returned in a .zip file.

Official Web Site.
The software is a PHP Script that expose a WS and a Web Interface, that help and symplify to reach its aim.

Source, OSSBlog.

Here, the plugin homepage.

It seems to work correctly.
I hope the spam-tornado that HIT every day my blog will goes down.

Because of the diffused inactivity on the servers of my hoster (Top Host) I catch’up the time to upgrade (finally) ot Wordpress 2.0.4.

Here the official release message:

WordPress 2.0.4, the latest stable release in our Duke series, is available for immediate download. This release contains several important security fixes, so it’s highly recommended for all users. We’ve also rolled in a number of bug fixes (over 50!), so it’s a pretty solid release across the board.

Upgrading is fairly simple, just overwrite your old files with the latest from the download. If you’d like more thorough instructions, the Codex is always the best spot.

Since this is a security release, if you have any friends with blogs make sure to remind them to upgrade and lend a hand if they’re not too savvy. We’re all in this together.

Thanks to Geoff and Mark Jaquith for identifying.