Software Update: WordPress 2.0.1

WordPress has recently been upgraded to version 2.0.1. The update can be downloaded as zip package and tarball archive and can be used on any computer running PHP 4.2+ and MySQL 3.23.23+. WordPress is a piece of blogging software made available under the GPL license. The software says it can be made working within five minutes. In addition to ‘blogging’, it is also possible to expand WordPress through plugins and themes. Version 2.0.1 includes a number of improvements, including caching and compatibility in certain PHP versions. In addition, tweaks have been made to promote article publishing. A brief overview of the changes can be found in the release notes:

All in all we’ve closed 114 bugs in the 2.0.1 release, which you’re welcome to check out if you’re curious about every fix. To summarize:

• You can now specify an upload directory, and whether to use date-based storage or not.
• Caching has been fixed under certain PHP environments.
• Permalinks have been fixed for weird environments as well.
• XML-RPC uploading works.
• Compatibility with older versions of PHP.
• Several WYSIWYG fixes and cleanups.
• Imports now use much less memory.
• Now works with MySQL 5.0 in strict mode.

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