{"id":115656,"date":"2020-10-30T21:43:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T01:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/?p=115656"},"modified":"2021-12-20T13:26:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T18:26:23","slug":"wordpress-botched-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wordpress-botched-it\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Botched it"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

\"WordPressImagine my surprise when I got a notification this morning (10\/30\/2020) at 11:42AM (local time)\u00a0 – Your site has been updated to WordPress 5.5.3-alpha-49449. has been updated automatically to WordPress 5.5.3-alpha-49449. <\/strong>No further action is needed on your part.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Say what?!?<\/p>\r\n

WordPress botched an update and auto-updated sites from the standard release channel to a development alpha channel – with no warning or reason.<\/p>\r\n


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According to WordPress Development, it’s a bug<\/a>. Not only did they move my site from the standard release channel to a dev release channel which gets updated every night. They also added back all of the 20xx WordPress default themes – Which I had already deleted.<\/p>\r\n

@hellofromTonya<\/span><\/span><\/a> at WordPress.org reports that the unwanted update is, “a side effect of another issue that occurred on 5.5.2.<\/em>“<\/p>\r\n

WP says there are 2 options to resolve this problem:<\/p>\r\n

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  1. Click the Re-install WordPress button on the Update screen to reinstall 5.5.2<\/em><\/li>\r\n
  2. Wait to update when 5.5.3 is released (coming soon)<\/em><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    Please note, 5.5.3-alpha-49449 also installed bundled themes. Any of these themes the site doesn’t need will need to be deleted manually.<\/em><\/p>\r\n

    @johnbillion<\/span><\/span><\/a> at WordPress.org posted, “When 5.5.3 is released, you’ll be updated to that stable version and you won’t be alpha or beta testing from that point onward.”<\/em><\/p>\r\n

    WP now recommends<\/a> – if you trust them – to update to version 5.5.3.<\/p>\r\n

    I did and it appears to have gotten me back to a stable version – but we will see overnight. If I get another dev edition – we will know it is still broke.<\/p>\r\n

    This smacks of an MSFT type auto-update “feature.” Make me start to question my faith in this new-fangled WP auto-update functionality.<\/p>\r\n

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    Just as I was about click Publish on this post – I got another alert that I needed to install WordPress 5.5.3 again – so much for their earlier fix !!!!<\/p>\r\n

    Get it together WordPress<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n

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    Stay safe out there!<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n

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