[wp-testers] WordPress 3.0.3 and Akismet

[Dion Hulse (dd32)]

This is the "expected" behaviour at present, and by expected, I mean an
unfortunate situation of a combination of Pinning WordPress 3.0.x to the 2.4
Akismet branch, and a "bug" in the WordPress Upgrader.

Since Akismet is bundled with WordPress Core, And the auto-upgrade upgrades
the buindled plugins/themes at present, the end result will be that the blog
will receive the current version of the plugin in the WordPress package.
The WordPress 3.0.x branch is (for the first time ever) linked to a specific
revision of akismet, specifically, the 2.4 branch.

WordPress 3.1 is directed to the Akismet 2.5 branch.

Now, Ideally, the WordPress upgrader shouldn't touch the files in
wp-content, unless it's to add a new default theme or similar.. But it also
doesnt currently respect custom wp-content directories, which also results
in those using non-english locale's and custom wp-content directories, not
recieving the updated locale files. Hopefully this is something that will
change with WordPress 3.2.

On 9 December 2010 16:18, Len Kutchma <lkutchma at gmail.com> wrote:

> I updated Akismet (on 3 sites) from 2.4.0 to 2.5.0 the other day via
> the automatic upgrade feature. Earlier this evening I noted WordPress
> 3.0.3 was released so I updated all 3 sites from 3.0.2 via the
> automatic upgrade feature. Later on I noticed the Akismet version was
> bumped down to 2.4.0 again.
>
> I thought I was either losing my mind or something funky is going on.
> I was able to duplicate this on 5 local installs using Xampp. The
> steps I took:
>
> 1. Upgrade Akismet from 2.4.0 to 2.5.0 via auto upgrade
> 2. Upgrade WordPress from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3 via auto upgrade
>
> Akismet is back to 2.4.0 and needs to be upgraded again.
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