WP 3.4.1 - Maintenance and Security Release

[lorax]

[wordpress.org...]

This maintenance release addresses 18 bugs with version 3.4, including:

Fixes an issue where a theme’s page templates were sometimes not detected.

Addresses problems with some category permalink structures.

Better handling for plugins or themes loading JavaScript incorrectly.

Adds early support for uploading images on iOS 6 devices.

Allows for a technique commonly used by plugins to detect a network-wide activation.

Better compatibility with servers running certain versions of PHP (5.2.4, 5.4) or with uncommon setups (safe mode, open_basedir), which had caused warnings or in some cases prevented emails from being sent.
Version 3.4.1 also fixes a few security issues and contains some security hardening.

[edited by: engine at 4:19 pm (utc) on Jun 28, 2012]
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[rocknbil]

Yeah it's only been 10 days since the last one and I updated like 20 sites to 3.4 . . . to awake yesterday to another. :-\ Oy vey.

[graeme_p]

I am getting sick of this. Time to find an alternative platform for my personal blog (all I still use WP for). Any suggestions? My main requirement is reasonably easy import of both posts and comments.

[lorax]

>> sick of this

I know it's a hassle but unless you use an online service that provides the updates for you, you will still need to upgrade or leave your sites open to exploit.

[ergophobe]

Options...

- multi-site setup
[codex.wordpress.org...]

- A wordpress "mass management" tool of which there are a handful, some free, some paid, some standalone, some hosted.

[lorax]

That is a valid option to reduce the headache - unless you're a stickler for keeping sites on different IPs/Servers.

Upgrades are a PITA for sure but a necessary evil. I'm of the opinion that the best we can hope for is to minimize the headaches - eg. automate/streamline what we can.

[Igal Zeifman]

You should check out ManageWP for multi-site WP management. Never used it myself but got some great feedbacks from friends...

[Panthro]

What seems like daily updates - just another thing I love about WP.

[graeme_p]

Yes, there are solutions for those running multiple sitse on Wordpress: multi site, management tools etc.

The problem is that a lot of the Wordpress user base who use it for a relatively low priority site, such as a personal blog, and for us it is not really worth the effort.

While any CMS needs to be updates, WP needs a lot. I would now gladly sacrifice some features for less frequent updates.

[londrum]

they keep adding some quite major changes, whilst keeping the build at 3. what they should do is make their big changes on a new number -- 4 -- and keep a stable 3.

then people can choose to whether they want to upgrade to 4 based on the changes, rather than being forced into it all the time.

[ergophobe]

I dislike that they do not segregate out security releases from bug fixes from feature creep.

Drupal these days basically does it as follows
- new features = major release
- bug fixes and security releases only for current version
- security releases segregated and notified differently than bug fixes (i.e. you can choose to receive upgrade warnings only for releases that include security items).
- modules fall under the same notification system - so I only get notified of upgrades for modules with *security* problems.