A low level security hole prompted a new version release of Wordpress today, version 2.6.3
Here’s the official blog post from Wordpress.
And here’s the meat of this update:
A vulnerability in the Snoopy library was announced today. WordPress uses Snoopy to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. Although this seems to be a [...]

Yup, I can hear you groaning.
It’s really coming again. Another major update for Wordpress. Which is going to mean that another major update is going to be necessary for business blogs built on Wordpress software.
The upside is that it looks like the whole dashboard is getting another overhaul that seems [...]

Well, that was fast….
Wordpress has released version 2.6.2 today and it is a recommended update for all Wordpress blogs.
From the Wordpress.org security pages:

Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt_rand(). With his help we worked around these problems and are now releasing [...]