Akismet Updates to 2.5.7, Requires WordPress 3.0+

Akismet has released their 2.5.7 release which is more of a maintenance release fixing minor bugs and including security enhancements. A few of these changes are:

• Fix a bug displaying the Stats page in some versions of FireFox
• Fix mshots previews when using https
• Add .htaccess to block direct access to files
• Prevent some PHP notices
• Fix Check For Spam return location when referrer is empty
• Fix Settings links for network admins
• Prevent some prepare() warnings in WordPress 3.5

This version now requires that you have WordPress 3.0 or higher – I’m not sure how many blogs are running less than the 3.0 version but I’d have to imagine that there are a lot – a lot of abandoned sites, cloned/hacked sites, and more.

We’re using Akisment on WP Daily and have already had 4 spams. Yay.

Update via your plugin panel or manually here.