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

Kirk M kmb42vt at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 15:41:52 UTC 2009


Well, that certainly would explain why the auto-upgrade to RC1 
doesn't work. :-)

On 7/8/2009 11:27 AM, Matt Martz wrote:
> 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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