Caught this in my dashboard, and inside of fifteen minutes I upgraded three blogs.
WordPress 2.0.6 has been released, roughly a day ago and sports a few bug fixes and security releases.
Their upgrade directions indicate a process involving deleting directories, backup up and the like. Me, I’m a bit wreckless.
All I did is extract the file on my machine and FileZilla’d it straight up, knowing that it would not overwrite my config.php file (since WP doesn’t ship with one preconfigured). Nor were my plugins in danger, save for the fact that they would be infected by close contact with the Hello Dolly plugin that ships with WP. All I can hope is that it was the Carol Channing (I met her) version of Hello Dolly.
Anyhoo, it works flawlessly as far as I can tell. The sites look the same and it threw no errors. It copied in record time and doesn’t seem to show any ill effect (nor any positive effect, but hey).
So go upgrade! Security risks are abound for the late adopter!
Be aware of some possible issues with Feedburner (and other services), if you use it at all. There was a little issue with 2.0.6.