On April 25, 2008 Wordpress has announced the latest version of wordpress has been released, which is version 2.5.1. It just about 3 weeks time after version 2.5 had released.

In this version of wordpress, it includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, the security fix and also others 70 bugs fixes. They recommend the wordpress users upgrade for this version especially those blogs are open for public to register. This moment, wordpress not mention the vulnerability of the security that brought to wordpress users at version 2.5.

Significantly, the amended files are
1. wp-includes/pluggable.php
2. wp-admin/includes/media.php
3. wp-admin/media.

The highlight of the bugs fixes as following.
1. Dashboard improvements that include write post, edit comments pages.
2. Enhancement on the multiple categories.
3. Media uploader fixes.
4. Upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
5. Widget Administration fixes
6. Various usability improvements.
7. Display layout fixes for IE browser.

Wordpress since version 2.5, wp-config.php file allows a new constant called SECRET_KEY, which is used for permanent randomness into the cryptographic functions for cookies in wordpress. It is interesting to explore the script at wordpress, the enhancements are improved every version.

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