One month after Version 2.0 was released, the folks at Wordpress have released version 2.0.1. The latest release fixes over 114 bugs that had been reported with 2.0. A summary of the changes which were posted at the Wordpress site include:

• You can now specify an upload directory, and whether to use date-based storage or not.
• Caching has been fixed under certain PHP environments.
• Permalinks have been fixed for weird environments as well.
• XML-RPC uploading works.
• Compatibility with older versions of PHP.
• Several WYSIWYG fixes and cleanups.
• Imports now use much less memory.
• Now works with MySQL 5.0 in strict mode.

Like that Idea readers may remember that we reported a few days ago about the poor performance problems we were seeing after upgrading the site to Wordpress 2.0. Now with 2.0.1, we are already seeing some improvements in the time it takes for pages to load in the browser. Our fingers are crossed. We now return to normal programming…