Come tomorrow, September 17, 2007, OpenOffice.org will release the latest (stable) version of OpenOffice.org 2.3.0. However, good news to all of you, the applications has already been made available for the public. This new version can be downloaded from several mirror sites, including OSUOSL.

There are several new features being introduced in this version; such as performance improvements, new charting wizard and the ability to generate Wiki pages. These information are made available from the Release Note page.

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Two days ago, WordPress has released the next version of 2.2.x family of WordPress. According to Ryan, it is vital that users of WordPress 2.2 series do upgrade immediately to this version.

Two of the fixes are classified as high priority and is a concern of security:

1. Invalid RSS2 Comments Feed
2. Users without unfiltered_html capability can post arbitrary html

Do not take risk, if you are running a big site using WordPress. Never fall prey to hackers. So, take a bit of effort and time to upgrade your WordPress blog to this version.

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Shortly after Beta 1 was released last week, WordPress 2.3 Beta 2 has also found its way to the public. Not that there is a major bug present in Beta1, but according to Mark Jaquith, the team of WordPress developers have decided to release the beta versions every Monday until WordPress 2.3 ships on September 24, 2007.

This Beta 2 version contains several bug fixes over last week’s release. Technically, it is still a rather unclean code, with many bits and pieces to be polished up. Note that, it is still not advisable to deploy this version on production web server. Do so, if you are comfortable with resolving PHP issues.

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