WordPress 3.2.1 Maintenance Release

The WordPress dev team yesterday released WordPress 3.2.1 – a maintenance release designed to fix a server incompatibility issue related to JSON* as well as other fixes for the new dashboard design and the Twenty Eleven theme. This comes a week after the much awaited WordPress 3.2 was released.

Changelog:

• Twenty Eleven: Prefix theme_options_render_page(). props chipbennett, see …
• Fix expanding the admin menu in RTL mode when no JS and collapsing it when …
• Check for WP_Error return values when using get_term_field() to set up nav …
• A few more pixels of padding for the admin content area. props …
• Twenty Eleven: Don’t call comments_popup_link() if …
• Fix RTL admin menu collapsing margin. props rosshanney, see #18029 for …
• Twenty Eleven: Update screenshot, use png. props iandstewart, fixes #18054 …
• Browse Happy dashboard box title should be white. props AndrewFrazier, …
• Shears.
• Restore page-template-default body class. props peterwilsoncc, fixes …
• Twenty Eleven: Update editor style for blockquotes and images. props …
• Twenty Eleven: Fix search form width in IE7. props iandstewart, fixes …
• Use browser default sans-serif instead of Arial or Helvetica. Props …
• Restore compat for json_decode and json_encode. fixes #18015 for 3.2.
• Fix typo in 2011, props AndrewFrazier, fixes #17989 for 3.2
• Update the version in the 3.2 branch to alpha status.
• Fix DFW resizing after reaching the sanity check width, props merty, fixes …

Download WordPress 3.2.1 from WordPress.org and update manually or you can do it the via the WordPress admin panel — Dashboard > Updates. Be sure to backup your WordPress database and deactivate all active plugins before performing the upgrade.

*JSON (an acronym for JavaScript Object Notation pronounced /ˈdʒeɪsən/) is a lightweight text-based open standard designed for human-readable data interchange