It is a security release that fixes a bug that can be used to reveal draft posts and suppresses some error messages that can give away information about your database. Visit the Wordpress site for more information and to download the update.

Oh, and Happy New Year!

Here are a couple of sites that can help.

browsers.evolt.org is an archive of old browser versions for windows, mac, linux and other operating systems. You can download virtually every browser that has ever existed and test your sites with them. Handily, the old versions of Internet Explorer can be installed as ’stand alone’ applications so they don’t interfere with your current IE version.

If you don’t have access to browsers on different operating systems, Browsershots.org is an excellent free service that generates screenshots of a webpage in different browsers on Linux, Windows and Mac. Of course, this only shows that a page is displaying correctly, it doesn’t show anything dynamic like hover effects etc, but it’s better than nothing.

My favourite site is Your HTML Source, which has a great glossary of HTML tags. It clearly outlines the correct usage for the all the common tags and many you might not normally think of using.

It’s a good idea to use an existing tag if possible, rather than defining your own class, as it makes your code more compliant with web standards and screen readers.