With all of the housekeeping (and phone calls, emails, and instant messages i had with my hosting provider) I just now got around to upgrading to WordPress 2.0.6.

We have a pretty important release available for everyone, it includes an important security fix, and it is recommended that everyone upgrade. This is the latest release in our stable 2.0 line, which we’ve committed to maintaining for several more years.

Here’s what’s new:

• The security above fixes.
• HTML quick tags now work in Safari browsers.
• Comments are filtered to prevent them from messing up your blog layout.
• Compatibility with PHP/FastCGI setups.

For developers, there’s a new anti-XSS function called attribute_escape() and a new filter called ‘query,’ which allows you to filter any SQL at runtime. (This is pretty powerful.) Thanks to Mark Jaquith for handling this release and Stefan Esser for responsibly reporting the security issue.