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Upgrade Log

@version 0.1 Wordpress automatic upgrade upgrades your wordpress installation by doing the following steps.

1. Backs up the files and makes available a link to download it.
2. Backs up the database and makes available a link to download it.
3. Downloads the latest files from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unzips it.
4. Puts the site in maintenance mode.
5. De-activates all active plugins and remembers it.
6. Upgrades wordpress files.
7. Gives you a link that will open in a new window to upgrade installation.
8. Re-activates the plugins.

The plugin can also can be run in a automated mode where in you do not have to click on any links to go to the next step.

Usage Instructions

Go to Manage -> Automatic Upgrade and either click on the link provided to run or use the automated version link to let the plugin run in a automated way.

Change Log

@version 0.4 1. Added a prelim check before starting the process to check whether or not we can write files to the server 2. Checks if previous version files were not cleared 3. If we cannot write the files to server asking user for ftp credentials so that we can make the permission changes 4. Fixed bug where task status was not reported on error thus showing a db error to the user 5. Fixed a bug where open_basedir restriction is on for a website hosted as virtual folder

@version 0.5

1. Fixed bugs where user had a www folder with full write permissions but the public_html folder was not writable.
2. Fixed issue where while writing there were ftp errors while creating backup directory but still plugin said all ready to go
3. Fixed issue where plugins were not activating even if one plugin threw an error.
4. Fixed other issues with html and reporting

@version 0.6 bug fixes for security

@version 0.7 fixes for blogs that have the wordpress setup in a different directory and run the blog on a different directory

@version 0.8 Fix for database table name changes in WordPress 2.3 this should only affect blogs that are running WordPress 2.3 while running the Automatic Upgrade.

@version 1.0 Finally out for a release version as it has worked with more than 10 releases of WordPress updates

This version basically fixes a issue with automatic plugin updates caused due to PCLZip library which is included used by WordPress plugin update code now checks in place to see that while plugins are being updated we silently drop the library inclusion

@version 1.1 Changed short tags to use full php tags which was breaking activation of the plugin when short tags were disabled on the server end.

@version 1.2

Fixed a major issue where plugins were not being activated after the upgrade was done. This bug was only seen in WordPress 2.5 and above since they clear out the cookies after the upgrade has comepleted. Changed all the urls to use wpurl instead of using siteurl Isolated view of the WordPress Automatic Updated Link to only the Administartors of the blog Uses Snoopy to downloading updates. Added a Nag to Update using WPAU Removed Automated Update mode Several other minor bug fixes

@1.2.0.1 updated user debug messages

@1.2.0.2 change snoopy class name to internal to fix a issue with snoopy being loaded after WP loaded and no checks in place

@1.2.1 Allows users to skip db and file backups since several users with big databases have reported for this feature

@1.2.2 Added nag to cleanup files from previous upgrade Does not write the log file to disk anymore Fixed a issue for including wp-config file

@1.2.3 Updated the code to display nag on WordPress 2.7 and above Fixed an issue which disallowed core updates to occur when WPAU was updated in WP 2.7 and above