WordPress 2.6 Released Today

Version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.

After brief analysing, i could find this new version having some issues with feed and Permalinks.

We can't make permalinks like /index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

and we have to change our feed link to http://www.mysite.com/?feed=rss

Temporary fixes:

1. If you're using Linux/Apache on your webserver, you don't really need the index.php anyway. Try removing it. The index.php thing was only meant for IIS servers, which don't support mod_rewrite.

2. If you need/want the index.php to be there, then on the Settings->Permalinks screen, add some values in for the category and tag bases. The words "category" and "tag" will do just fine. As long as they are not blank, this should work around the bug.