WordPress 2.0.x now deprecated
The WordPress development team is now ending support for the WordPress 2.0.x branch, just a few months earlier than the planned 2010 deprecation.
Many of the security improvements to the new versions of WordPress in the last couple of years were complete reworks of how various systems were handled. Porting those changes to the 2.0.x branch would have been a monumental task and could have introduced instability or new bugs. We had to make hard decisions between stability and merging in the latest security enhancements. Additionally, far fewer people stayed on the 2.0.x branch than we anticipated. I take that as a testament to the new features in WordPress and perhaps even more the features offered by plugins, many of which don’t support older versions of WordPress!
The good news is, there are way fewer people who have left their WordPress installations outdated than updated. If you’re part of that group, though, do the right thing and upgrade now! The advantages—both in features and security—far outweigh the disadvantages.
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