[wp-testers] Verifying core update works for the real 2.7 to 2.7.1

[Peter Westwood]

Ryan Boren wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Xavier Borderie <xavier at borderie.net> wrote:
>   
>>> After 2.7 is installed, and before 2.7.1 (yes 2.7.1) is released, what will
>>> happen if a user clicks the Upgrade Automatically button?  Or will that
>>> button be visible?
>>>       
>> Like wise, an interrogation of mine : if we upgrade blogs to 2.7-rc1
>> now, they will update to the latest trunk, which is normal and
>> expected.
>> But what will happen once 2.7 is released? Will these users' installs
>> of 2.7 still be fetching files from trunk, or does it stop there and
>> only uses /tags from there on?
>>     
>
> If you are running 2.7-xxx, you will get a notice to upgrade to 2.7
> once it is available.  From there you will be out of the development
> release track and onto the regular release track.  To get back on the
> development release track you can change the version in
> wp-includes/version.php to '2.8-alpha'.
>   
For the more adventurous of you that want to stay always on the nightly 
builds I intend on sorting out a plugin based solution although this may 
not be available before 2.7 goes gold.

westi

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