The Flow of Consciousness

WordPress 2.5.1 has been released. It fixes a serious security vulnerability and more than 70 fixes and enhancements.

There’s also something highlighted in the release which I did not know had been added in 2.5. From the release:

Since 2.5 your wp-config.php file allows a new constant called SECRET_KEY which basically is meant to introduce a little permanent randomness into the cryptographic functions used for cookies in WordPress. You can visit this link we set up to get a unique secret key for your config file. It’s unique and random on every page load. Having this line in your config file helps secure your blog.

For my readers who, like me, are managing WordPress using subversion, the upgrade is a simple svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.5.1 away. If you’re not managing WordPress using subversion—and you really should if you have come kind of shell access to your server—then go to WordPress.org to get the newest release.