WordPress 2.7.1 Released
I reported on WLTC that 2.7.1 RC1 was released for testing and now the final version of WordPress 2.7.1 is available for download / upgrade. 2.7.1 fixes 68 tickets.
If you already have WordPress 2.7 or 2.7.1 RC1 installed, you'll receive an update notification that will allow you to upgrade WordPress from within WP-Admin itself. You can upgrade by visiting Tools > Upgrade in WP-Admin. This will upgrade the files and the database as well in one step.
If you're using 2.6.x or below you will need to manually upgrade.
Unlike earlier, I won't be providing any upgrade file since, WordPress has made this possible and that is the easiest and recommended method to upgrade your installation.
- Download WordPress 2.7.1
- Full set of changes between 2.7 and 2.7.1






Have you used the auto-upgrade feature yet? Since this is the first chance, I'm a bit wary of losing all my data. Guess I'll just back up and give it a shot…
I have. It worked perfectly on my blogs.
The upgrade step is really easy and smooth using upgrade tool from WP.
Ajay does this update fix the WLW and wordpress stripping tags issue ??
I don't know if this is the case. The list of bugs fixed doesn't list this problem, so I assume no. Again the stripping tags isn't truly a problem with WordPress, but with libxml and PHP. There would only be a workaround solution, sadly.