Ever since applying the new version of pMachine Free I get the “Unable to ping weblogs.com at this time.” error whenever saving a new entry. I’m still able to ping weblogs.com in other apps, and was able to ping in the previous version of pMachine.

Has anyone else noticed this problem? Is it related to this update?

Nothing was changed in this update concerning pinging.  However, two users of EE have been mentioning problems pinging weblogs.com as well as pMachine.com.  We are still investigating, but all of our test sites seem to have no difficulty.  You might check with your host to make sure sockets are open on port 80 and if the fsockopen function is still available in your installation of PHP.