WordPress 3.2 now available
WordPress 3.2 is fifteenth major release of WordPress and comes just four months after 3.1 (which coincidentally just passed the 15 million download mark this morning), reflecting the growing speed of development in the WordPress community and our dedication to getting improvements in your hands as soon as possible. We’re dedicating this release to noted composer and pianist George Gershwin.
The focus for this release was making WordPress faster and lighter. The first thing you’ll notice when you log in to 3.2 is a refreshed dashboard design that tightens the typography, design, and code behind the admin. If you’re starting a new blog, you’ll also appreciate the fully HTML5 new Twenty Eleven theme, fulfilling our plan to replace the default theme every year. Start writing your first post in our redesigned post editor and venture to the full-screen button in the editing toolbar to enter the new distraction-free writing or zen mode, my personal favorite feature of the release. All of the widgets, menus, buttons, and interface elements fade away to allow you to compose and edit your thoughts in a completely clean environment conducive to writing, but when your mouse strays to the top of the screen your most-used shortcuts are right there where you need them.
Are You Ready for WordPress 3.2?
The minimum requirements:
PHP and MySQL
As of 3.2, you’ll need to be running PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0. As they mentioned almost a year ago when they announced that this change was coming, the percentage of people running older versions of PHP and MySQL is relatively low. With more than 45 million people using WordPress, though, even a small percentage can mean a lot of people! Don’t caught with your pants dashboard down — make sure you’re running compatible versions of PHP and MySQL before you update tomorrow when WordPress 3.2 is released.
How to access Web Disk (WebDav) on cPanel server
The Web Disk feature is cPanel’s implementation of the WebDav protocol. This feature allows you to manage files associated with your website. By creating an account and accessing your Web Disk, you can navigate, upload, and download files to and from your web server as though they were part of your personal computer.
How to access Web Disk (WebDav):
1. Login to cPanel and click on Web Disk icon.
2. Scroll down the page and click on “Access Web Disk” button.
3. Choose your locate system’s operating system.
4. Scroll down and hit the Go button.
5. Click the Save button.
6. On your computer, hit Save, Open, and Run.
Web Disk allows to drag and drop the files/folders easily from your local system to your website.
WordPress 3.1.4 released
WordPress 3.1.4 is available now and is a maintenance and security update for all previous versions.
This release fixes an issue that could allow a malicious Editor-level user to gain further access to the site. Version 3.1.4 also incorporates several other security fixes and hardening measures thanks to the work of WordPress developers Alexander Concha and Jon Cave of WordPress security team.
WordPress 3.1 released
The long-awaited fourteenth release of WordPress is now available. WordPress 3.1 “Reinhardt” is named in honor of the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Version 3.1 is available for download, or you can update from within your dashboard.
This release features a lightning fast redesigned linking workflow which makes it easy to link to your existing posts and pages, an admin bar so you’re never more than a click away from your most-used dashboard pages, a streamlined writing interface that hides many of the seldom-used panels by default to create a simpler and less intimidating writing experience for new bloggers (visit Screen Options in the top right to get old panels back), and a refreshed blue admin scheme available for selection under your personal options.
There’s a bucket of candy for developers as well, including our new Post Formats support which makes it easy for themes to create portable tumblelogs with different styling for different types of posts, new CMS capabilities like archive pages for custom content types, a new Network Admin, an overhaul of the import and export system, and the ability to perform advanced taxonomy and custom fields queries.
With the 3.1 release, WordPress is more of a CMS than ever before. The only limit to what you can build is your imagination.
By the Numbers
There were over two thousand commits to the codebase in the 3.1 cycle! For a more comprehensive look at everything that has improved in 3.1, check out 3.1’s Codex page or the more than 820 closed issues in Trac.
How to create a MySQL database from cPanel
1. Login to your cPanel (https://yourdomain.com:2083).
2. Once logged into cPanel for the domain (https://yourdomain.com:2083 or use IP address instead of domain name if the domain is not pointing to the server), click MySQL databases under the Databases section.
3. Enter a name for the database and click Create Database.
4. Once the database is created, click Go Back.
5. Enter a username and a strong password for the database and click Create User.
6. Once the user is created, click Go Back.
7. Now you need to add the user to the database. Under Add User To Database, select the appropriate user and database.
8. Click Submit.
9. Select the appropriate database privileges for the user and click Make Changes.
- Kailash Aghera
IPv4 exhaustion – Last blocks of IPv4 net addresses get handed over
The last five blocks of the IP Version 4 addresses have been handed over to the regional bodies that distribute them.
Those five blocks, called /8s and which contain 16 million addresses each, are expected to be completely depleted by September 2011.
The move to the new addressing scheme, IP version 6, is under way but could take years to complete.
“This is one of the most important days in the internet’s history,” said Rod Beckstrom, head of net overseer Icann at a press conference called to mark the handing over of the final five blocks.
“It is a point that the founders of the internet thought would occur far in the future,” he said. “It gives us an opportunity to shift to an internet protocol that offers a pool so large that it is difficult even to imagine.”
IPv6 has a pool of addresses a billion, trillion times larger than the 4.3 billion that IPv4 can support.
While that pool of 4.3 billion addresses was seen as plenty when the net was getting going, its recent growth has seen it get used up very quickly.
The shift to IPv6 was needed, he said, to support the continuing growth of the net and its greater use by all kinds of connected devices.
“The future of the internet and the innovation it fosters lies with IPv6,” said Mr Beckstrom.
Despite the imminent exhaustion of the IPv4 pool, few ISPs, companies, academic organisations and others have made the switch. A World IPv6 Day is being planned for 8 June that will give governments, companies and others the chance to test out the technology.
Cisco, Verizon, Yahoo, Google, Facebook and many others have committed to testing IPv6 on 8 June.
In the UK, the switch to the new addressing scheme might take years, said Philip Sheldrake, head of 6UK, an organisation set up to advise companies how to make the move.
Most firms would upgrade equipment, routers, hubs and modems, as part of their “normal replenishment cycle”, he said.
Equipment that is going to be in use for years before being replaced could be fitted with “dual stack” systems that can handle both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
Some ISPs and others may take a more aggressive approach to the switch, said Mr Sheldrake.
“There are automated approaches that involve some remote updating of firmware in equipment,” he said.
“The internet does not break when IPv4 is exhausted,” said Mr Sheldrake explaining why this long term shift was feasible.
“What we are looking at here is that some parts of the world that have less IPv4 will be more on the front foot of adopting v6 than the UK because we have some good v4 space,” he said.
Source: BBC NEWS
Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.SqlServer.Diagnostics.STrace’
You may receive the following error while starting SQL server 2008 Management Studio:
The type initializer for ‘Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Dmf.PolicyStore’ threw an exception. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Dmf)
Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.SqlServer.Diagnostics.STrace, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91′ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
In most cases, uninstalling Visual studio and .Net 4 and reinstalling them fix the problem. In case if it does not resolve the issue you can follow the below steps to resolve this error:
1. Run Command Prompt and find the location of the DLL file using the following command:
dir Microsoft.SqlServer.Diagnostics.STrace.dll /s
2. Copy the location with the DLL name.
3. Run VS 2008 Command Prompt as Administrator.
4. Execute the following
GACUTIL –i “{Location of Microsoft.SqlServer.Diagnostics.STrace.dll} found at step 1”
If the DLL file Microsoft.SqlServer.Diagnostics.STrace.dll is missing on your system, you may, however, copy it from other working system.
Hopefully this should resolve the error.
Kailash Aghera
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