{"id":2426,"date":"2012-09-06T20:07:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T20:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2022-11-18T22:53:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T22:53:53","slug":"wordpress-3-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2012\/09\/wordpress-3-4-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 3.4.2 Maintenance and Security Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 3.4.2, now available for download, is a maintenance and security release for all previous versions.<\/p>\n<p>After nearly 15 million downloads since 3.4 was released not three months ago, we&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/query?status=closed&amp;resolution=fixed&amp;milestone=3.4.2&amp;group=resolution&amp;order=severity&amp;desc=1\">identified and fixed a number of nagging bugs<\/a>, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix some issues with older browsers in the administration area.<\/li>\n<li>Fix an issue where a theme may not preview correctly, or its screenshot may not be displayed.<\/li>\n<li>Improve plugin compatibility with the visual editor.<\/li>\n<li>Address pagination problems with some category permalink structures.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid errors with both oEmbed providers and trackbacks.<\/li>\n<li>Prevent improperly sized header images from being uploaded.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Version 3.4.2 also fixes a few security issues and contains some security hardening. The vulnerabilities included potential privilege escalation and a bug that affects multisite installs with untrusted users. These issues were discovered and fixed by the WordPress security team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/\"><strong>Download 3.4.2<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0now or visit Dashboard \u2192 Updates in your site admin to update now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Fixes for some bugs<br \/>\nBack to work on 3.5<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s time to update<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 3.4.2, now available for download, is a maintenance and security release for all previous versions. After nearly 15 million downloads since 3.4 was released not three months ago, we&#8217;ve identified and fixed a number of nagging bugs, including: Fix some issues with older browsers in the administration area. Fix an issue where a theme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5286302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[437],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases","category-security","tag-minor-releases"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-D8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5286302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}