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Will the Core Update feature in WordPress 2.7 work on your webhosting account? One way to find out is to view the new article in the Codex entitled “Core Update Host Compatibility“. This article serves as a central location to discover whether or not the Core Update feature works with a specific web hosting company. The article is divided up into three sections and lists webhosting companies in alphabetical order:

• Working Hosts, No Issues
• Works With Caveats
• Doesn’t Work

Keep in mind that:

It is important to note that the update feature will not work when updating to Version 2.7, but rather will work for Versions released AFTER 2.7 (e.g. upgrading from 2.7 to 2.7.1)!

If you discover during the beta test period that the core update feature works on your webhosting account, please add the company to the Codex article within the appropriate section.

There are many guides out there (one in particular I won’t dare mention) about upgrading to 2.5, but I was curious how your experience was.

I’ve personally upgraded two of my blogs — one manually, and one using Keith’s awesome WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. In both cases, I ran into no issues aside from a few incompatible plugins (you did check the list, right?).

To get the ball rolling, here are several links to some upgrade experiences around the web. My hope is to make this post a resource with a list of upgrade guides and experiences. Please feel free to add your own in the comments below (only one link please).

• Alex Frison shares with us how to upgrade 2.5 in 5 minutes.
• Random View shares his experience with upgrading to 2.5.
• Christer Edwards discusses updating, not one, but multiple blogs to WP 2.5 with no issues.
• Jeffro2pt0 discusses his transition to 2.5.
• And of course Socialized Software provides us with an in-depth WordPress 2.5 Review (link removed for suspicion of XSS).

So what was your upgrade experience like?

Multiple Mozilla Products Vulnerabilities If you have not upgraded your Mozilla Products already, it might be high time to do so. Vulnerable products include Firefox 1.5, Thunderbird 1.5, Mozilla Suite 1.7 and Seamonkey 1.0