10 July, 2009

WordPress 2.8.1 is out – Fixes major bugs from last release

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 08:39 PM PDT

WordPress 2.8.1 stable release is out with a whole set of bug fixes.

What else is new since 2.8? Read through the highlights below, or view all changes since 2.8

Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won't have to change.
Dashboard memory usage is reduced. Some people were running out of memory when loading the dashboard, resulting in an incomplete page.
The automatic upgrade no longer accidentally deletes files when cleaning up from a failed upgrade.
A problem where the rich text editor wasn't being loaded due to compression issues has been worked around.
Extra security has been put in place to better protect you from plugins that do not do explicit permission checks.
Translation of role names fixed.
wp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user specified menu order rather than the page title.
Upload error messages are now correctly reported.
Autosave error experienced by some IE users is fixed.
Styling glitch in the plugin editor fixed.
SSH2 filesystem requirements updated.
Switched back to curl as the default transport.
Updated the translation library to avoid a problem with mbstring.func_overload.
Stricter inline style sanitization.
Stricter menu security.
Disabled code highlighting due to browser incompatibilities.
RTL layout fixes.

Download WordPress 2.8.1 here

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Google catches up with Yahoo – Introduces Copyright Search for Images

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 11:27 AM PDT

On May 27th 2009, Yahoo Image Search had introduced "Copyrights search" on images. But unfortunately, Yahoo had only access to the copyrights information of images hosted on flickr, their own company.

But when Google does it, they do it in style !

Google went a step ahead and now lets you search images that are available for free across the web. This is the official news piece.

Today, we’re launching a feature on Image Search to help you find images that you can use for free, while respecting the wishes of artists and creators. This feature allows you to restrict your Image Search results to images that have been tagged with licenses like Creative Commons, making it easier to discover images from across the web that you can share, use and even modify. Your search will also include works that have been tagged with other licenses, like GNU Free Documentation license, or are in the public domain.

Notice how Google puts it as "images from across the web". I'm pretty sure it includes every possible image from the web (including flickr images).

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