Tag Archives: 3.8.1

Kira Schroder 2:02 pm on January 27, 2014
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Last week in WordPress core

And now, for the first in a series of synopsis posts outlining what’s going on in WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. The idea behind these posts is to highlight technical changes in WordPress 3.9 as it progresses, with the hope of keeping the community informed. If you have suggestions for content you’d like to see, please comment below!

Last week, we kicked off 3.9, and released 3.8.1 (yay!). There were a lot of changes that occurred in 3.8.1, and @nacin provided an overview. These were all added to trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision. and will be in 3.9.

Here are a few highlights from last week’s commits:

@nacin also added a small enhancementenhancement Enhancements are simple improvements to WordPress, such as the addition of a hook, a new feature, or an improvement to an existing feature. to TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. to point users in the right direction when they end up on a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. that was fixed in a released version of WordPress:
This ticket was closed on a completed milestone. If you have a bug or enhancement to report, please open a new ticket.

Other housekeeping items included new Trac “focuses”.

For the complete list of 51 commits to trunk, here’s the changelog. Thirty contributors had a hand in last week’s efforts. Want to jump in this week? Write or test a patch for 3.9.

Thanks for efforts from yurivictor, cojennin, iammattthomas, mdbitz, kraftbj, dd32, c3mdigital, jorbin, adamsilverstein, Otto42, JayCC, johnbillion, nacin, xknown, mattheu, nbachiyski, undergroundnetwork, morganestes, matveb, SergeyBiryukov, azaozz, joedolson, alex-ye, ciantic, MikeHansenMe, batmoo, Corphi, Marventus, ocean90, and DrewAPicture.

#3-8-1, #3-9, #week-in-core

Andrew Nacin 12:39 am on January 24, 2014
Tags: 3.8.1,   

3.8.1 auto update rollout

I’ll be using this thread to track the rollout of automatic background updates for 3.8.1, released earlier.

The WP.org APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. is now sending update instructions to about 1 in every 128 sites. This is for all locales (not just English). 3.8.1 was released about four hours ago and I’d like to have the rollout complete in the next six hours or so. Sites check WP.org every 12 hours, but this timetable means all sites should be updating within one day of the initial release.

So, why a slow rollout? Well, we’re monitoring a number of things that would cause us to put a pause on auto-updates, such as whether there were any critical issues in 3.8.1, whether update failure rates are higher than usual, how WP.org is handling the load, etc. The rollout is happening much faster this time than last time (3.7.1), and yes, the goal will be to eventually push out auto-update instructions immediately.

So far, we’ve seen a 100% success rate for about a thousand auto-updates to 3.8.1, and north of 99% for one-click updates. (A reminder: a failure only means the site couldn’t update, not that it broke.) I’ll comment to this thread with more numbers as the rollout continues.

#3-8-1, #updates