This is one topic that really gets me fired up. There are so many reasons why you should not install WordPress from an Operating System’s software repository, yet thousands of people do it every day. We will discuss reasons why you should consider installing WordPress from the package available on the official site instead of from the software repository provided by your Operating System.
The Content-MD5 HTTP Header was recently put in place on WordPress.org for WordPress releases to allow easier MD5 checksum verification of the download without requiring an extra HTTP request to grab an MD5 file. WordPress will soon start validating the MD5 checksum when downloading files based on this header.
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