Geeks across the land rejoice.
Why just the geeks?  Well this release is expected to not have many visible changes.  A lot of those were made with the 2.5 release, so it’s time to catch our breath.
Instead, a lot of changes “under the hood” are being made to improve the usability and experience.  Here’s the list.
Caching [...]

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Many people are sill experiencing issues with the image upload function in Wordpress 2.5.1.
The issue centers around placing images into posts with links to the image itself or to a page with the image on it.
After uploading in an image, you are given the option to place it with None, File URL, or Post URL.  [...]

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Wordpress 2.5.1 is now available for immediate download and install.
Wordpress and iCast Limited highly recommends upgrading your install immediately due to the discovery of a serious security hole associated with open registration.  The vulnerability will be published soon, so it is in your best interest to upgrade as soon as possible.
The full upgrade also has [...]

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The newly released Wordpress 2.5 does have one small bug in it related to image uploads. The new version takes advantage of some Java and Flash to run the image uploader that doesn’t place nice with Internet Explorer 7.
It seems to work fine with Firefox and on Macs, but PC’s running IE 7 are [...]

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A site called 24/7 Wall St. put together a list of the 25 Most Valuable blogs on the Internet.
The top 10 (of 25) include:
1) Gawker
2) MacRumors
3) Huffington Post
4) PerezHilton.com
5) TechCrunch
6) Ars Technica (tie)
6) Seeking Alpha (tie)
8) Drudge Report (tie)
8) Mashable (tie)
10) GigaOrn
Perez was valued at $48 million, and the Huffington Post at $70 million, just [...]

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