Movable Type 3.34 Fixes XSS Security, Supports FastCGI

Six Apart has released version 3.34 of the Movable Type Publishing Platform. Movable Type 3.34 is a free and recommended update for all Movable Type users.

Movable Type 3.34 fixes important potential XSS vulnerabilities and enables simple use of FastCGI which yields a 15x performance increase.

FastCGI support has been fully integrated into the core application and now Movable Type is capable of detecting when it is running under FastCGI automatically and take advantage of its unique performance benefits. Running Movable Type under FastCGI is still optional, but they recommend that users run Movable Type under it.

“FastCGI has shown to increase application performance by almost 15 times. The speed increase is so dramatic because the application is persisted in memory, allowing information to be cached between page requests reducing page load time and database load.”

That should make MovableType Bloggers happy…