Last week’s poll was interesting for me, not so much that 6 of the 9 respondents were using a variant of 2.1 which is to be expected, but that one person was using version 1.5 and that one had no idea.Unfortunately they didn’t leave their reasons, but I’d love to know why you would use a piece of free software so far out of date.

I have read a few bloggers who don’t like 2.1 for whatever reason and prefer to stick with the 2.0.x branch, which is fine, because it’s actively maintained with 2.0.9 incorporating the latest security features. But why you’d use something that old I’m not sure. Any ideas?

The person who didn’t know is also interesting - both versions 2.0.6 and 2.1.1 had security issues which may allow someone to take over and/or destroy your blog. Of course, as long as you backup, you could get it back, but why go through that? WordPress tells you about upgrades in your dashboard, and of course blogs like mine always mention when a new upgrade comes out. Keep up to date, especially where security features are concerned!