I just found out WordPress released a mini upgrade to its current version; 2.9.1. However, there really is nothing major and to be worried about, if you’re wondering – unless, you run a multi-author blog.
Looking Into Other People’s Trash
Thomas Mackenzie alerted us to a problem where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should…
Source: WordPress
As the WordPress team shared, unless you’re worried about your content being exposed by other authors whom you thought you could trust, it’s best you upgrade.
But if you’re the only author of your blog, then there is nothing to fret. :)
It is always a good practice to upgrade to the latest version. :) No database upgrade is required for this minor update.
I recently Started blogging and when I install WordPress my hosting installed 2.9.1 instead of 2.9.2.
And I had to manually upgrade the wordpress to the latest version. though it was not tough though initially I thought of it as quite scary.
@kenji:
Well, the scary part is normally the plugin compatibility. :P
@blogger:
Ditto. Scary from a plugin view to me.