Now this is fast. Just a few days after the release of RC1, comes WordPress 2.7 RC2. According to the developers, this would almost be the final release of 2.7 barring any bugs and glitches. Or maybe a little tweaking or polishing as they say 
Just recently, WordPress released v ersion 2.6.3, which they say is a minor security release but is still worth downloading and upgrading. I was reading New WordPress Hacking Strategy Using Cloaking to Target Google IP Addresses and decided to check my WP installation. Thankfully, I got to find out there’s a new version released.
Developer’s of open-source systems has been very vigilant nowadays after a lot of hacking incidents. Joomla released version 1.5.7 and WordPress released a new version, 2.6.2, as well.
These moves strengthens the belief open-source users to the development community.