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WooConf 2016: State Of The Woo With Matt Mullenweg
WooConf 2016 kicked off with Matt Mullenweg’s first-ever State Of The Woo address. The WordPress founder and CEO of Automattic (which acquired WooCommerce maker WooThemes last year) had a few things to say about what’s going on with WooCommerce and how it has changed since its beginnings. Find out about WooCommerce’s journey with some of the stats listed below.
Outdated and Vulnerable WordPress and Drupal Versions May Have Contributed to the Panama Papers Breach
The Panama Papers breach is the largest data leak in history by a wide margin, with 2.6 terabytes of data, 11.5 million documents, and more than 214,000 shell companies exposed.
Forbes has identified outdated WordPress and Drupal installations as security holes that may have led to the data leak.
WP REST API Team Aims for WordPress 4.7 for Merge Proposal
The WP REST API team released version 2.0 beta 13 of the feature plugin today. This release includes a couple of breaking changes, JavaScript client updates, and many other fixes and improvements.
Developers who use the plugin in their projects can expect it to follow a more stable release cycle in the future, as beta 13 marks the last of the breaking changes.