[wp-testers] Auto-update to 2.8.1-RC1 not working properly

Matt Martz matt at sivel.net
Wed Jul 8 15:27:55 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Kirk M<kmb42vt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Might as well add me to the list. Auto upgrade from 2.8.1 beta 2 on my two
> sites completed successfully but left me at 2.8.1 beta 2 (in the footer and
> "version.php"). I didn't have the "nag" screen in either site though once
> the RC became available. Does Automattic have different servers for manually
> downloading purposes and auto-upgrading purposes? If so, perhaps 2.8.1 RC
> (for auto-upgrading) never made it to the correct server?
>
> Just a thought
>
> On 7/8/2009 9:55 AM, Gene Steinberg wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 8, 2009, at 6:17 AM, scribu wrote:
>>
>>> It seems no. 2 is caused by the WordPress Beta Tester plugin. Once I
>>> deactivated it, I didn't get the nag after trying to upgrade.
>>>
>>> But i'm still on beta2.
>>
>>
>> Same here. I just ended up doing the manual update on the four blogs we
>> run.
>>
>> Peace,
>> Gene Steinberg

I figured I'd download the latest 2.8 nightly zip file
(http://wordpress.org/nightly-builds/wordpress-2.8-latest.zip) to take
a look.  Seems as though the 2.8 nightly hasn't updated to rc1 yet as
version.php is still reporting 2.8.1-beta2 from that zip.

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Matt Martz
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