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1. alfredocubitos
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,

   I made an upgrade from my 2.5 to 2.5.1 version but in the admin panel keeps showing "please upgrade to 2.5.1"

   I read some forum topics dicussing about the same problem. I followed also the recommendation of MichaelH to read Steps 7 and 8 in Upgrading_WordPress_Extended, but the version number doesn't change.

   The wp_options db entry shows this:
   O:8:"stdClass":5:{s:12:"last_checked";i:1209199247;s:15:"version_checked";s:3:"2.5";s:8:"response";s:7:"upgrade";s:3:"url";s:30:"http://wordpress.org/download/";s:7:"current";s:5:"2.5.1";}

   And I didn't found any error message in my logfile.

   Any further idea?

   Links the latest.zip to the right version?

2. momwebs
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   We have the same problem with both latest.zip and latest.tar.gz.

3. momwebs
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Also, version.php says:

   $wp_version = '2.5.1';
   $wp_db_version = 7796;

   but the warning messages remain on the dashboard.

4. momwebs
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   In our case the problem turned out to be the hack described here:

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/168964?replies=30

5. alfredocubitos
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   ok, I checked out this before and made all that find stuff, but nothing.
   I checked my /tmp dir nothing.
   Neither corrupted images nor infected files.
   Also I didn't found any db entries as described.

   But I updated my local installation and everything works fine.

   I'm totally lost!

   What have you done to solve the problem?

6. alfredocubitos
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   now it works.
   I made a complete new installation.

   But it seems that I got an old latest.zip before because first I made a new installation with latest.zip, and same phenomena.
   After that I got a latest.zip twice, installed it and WP asked me for an update !
   AND this update worked successfully !

   I would propose that the WP-maitainers supply a new download file with a version number.

7. hgrebe
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I agree. Let's have an "About Wordpress" or some simple indicator of the Version installed. Even though the Wordpress version zip files are clearly marked with the version number, I am finding no obvious way to determine the versions of my prior installs. It should be a simple line of code to add. The version # a the bottom of the Dashboard page seems to be something broadcast by Wordpress and not a true indication of the version you are running. I am correct in this?

8. whooami
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I am correct in this?

   No you are not. If you were, I would have been blowing smoke out my ass when I responded to your other post, wouldn't I have been?

   The WordPress version you see in the footer of your wp-admin panel is a result of what is stored inside wp-includes/version.php

   There are exceptions to this rule:

   1. security upgrades where you might upgrade 1 or 2 files, and consequently that file is NOT changed.

   2. Incomplete upgrades where that file is NOT changed.

   3. There is a recent hack which may or may not change the version thats displayed.

   --

   And honestly, if you are so fricken dense that you cant figure out what version of WP that you are using, you shouldnt be using it. Youre a liability to the I'net.

   I mean cmon, youve been regged on these forums for three years -- THIS ought to be behind you by now.

9. hgrebe
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks for the info, but not the attitude.

   My version.php says:

   <?php
   // This holds the version number in a separate file so we can bump it without cluttering the SVN
   $wp_version = '2.1.3';
   $wp_db_version = 4773;
   ?>

   So, evidently there is something screwed up with the way my footer reads, or fails to read this.

   IMO WordPress is nice for free, but it is a liability as well. I have better things to do with the Internet than to struggle with half baked tools that are the producet of massive groupware. Once again, tempted to move on to a better blogging tool such as Typepad.

10. whooami
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I will make one change to what I said above.

    Since Im not willing to go through the code and actually look.. the version in the footer might be the db_version.

    Either way, you are still incorrect,

11. hgrebe
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    So, why didn't you state the same answer the first time I asked the question, genius?

12. whooami
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Once again, tempted to move on to a better blogging tool such as Typepad.

    Here's the door.

    --

    You really should read.

    lets put some common sense to the test. Your version.php reads that you are using a version thats .. oh, what 1 year old? year-1/2 maybe?

    Your footer reads something else.

    what did I write in #3 above?

    hmm.. think you might be hacked? It wouldnt be a surprise to anyone if your version.php is an accurate reflection of your codebase.

13. prestonf
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Hey folks - I'm new to the forum but have been around WP for a while. I have the problem as explained above. I've done multiple svn check outs of 2.5.1 and done a manual upgrade, but the problem of being prompted on the dashboard still persists.

    This solution is unclear to me:

    But it seems that I got an old latest.zip before because first I made a new installation with latest.zip, and same phenomena.
    After that I got a latest.zip twice, installed it and WP asked me for an update !
    AND this update worked successfully !

    My version file states that I am using 2.5.1.

    Any help would be appreciated.

14. whooami
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    So, why didn't you state the same answer the first time I asked the question, genius?

    We were editing ourt posts at the same time, friend. I came back from MY edit, and saw yours. I didnt NOT change my reply after reading yours.

    Wanna talk about genius's ?? Im not the one who cant figure out what the hell version of software im using.

15. whooami
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    prestonf,

    follow the link above, and make sure that you havent been the victim of an exploit. Better safe than sorry.

16. hgrebe
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I'm just gonna do an upgrade. Enough of the masturbatory BS. whooami? You're an asshole.

17. whooami
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    hgrebe,

    There are seemingly legitimate reasons, right now at least, for there being inconsistencies in versions. It was your specific question above that I found frustrating, especially since I had just answered you in another thread.

18. Samgreen
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Once I upgrade wp. I force a reload of my browser, and the version number changes. I have yet to have a problem with the version number not changing. I haven't upgraded to 2.5.1 yet.

19. SoundTrip
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    This is obviously a real issue. I upgraded about 6 domains without problem but the seventh persists on telling me that I am still at 2.5. After upgrading the blog gave me the message that my database was out of date. I upgraded through the link and now it still tells me that I am at version 2.5.

    I am a web host so I upgrade all domains using the same script.

    I checked the version file and it says 2.5.1. Any ideas would be appreciated.

20. yorokobi
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    SoundTrip I have to same thing here. 5 sites no problem, 6th one keeps telling me it's 2.5.

    On the 5 that went off without a hitch, I uploaded the zip and then unzipped using a php script. I didn't delete anything, just overwrote originals.

    They are all ok.

    I did the 6th one that way too - kept saying 2.5. Did the deletions ala "Step 7 and 8" kept saying 2.5... files have the correct dates/times, cleared the browser cache, version.php says 2.5.1 dunno what else to check.

    (PS - whooami, to paraphrase from another post where you also employed your unique tact - you're an ass, and don't bother coming back and telling us you're not, you are, it's not open for debate.)

21. SoundTrip
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Hi,

    It turns out that the blog that I was having issues with appears to have been hacked per this blog article here:

    http://wordpressphilippines.org/blog/has-your-wordpress-been-hacked-recently/

    After fixing the issues iterated in the blog post the troubled blogs now work just fine.

22. yorokobi
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Ditto - in fact a few of them have, even ones that appeared OK.

    Is there a mailing list to get alerts to this sort of thing? Had it not been for your link, I'd have never known about this...

    O_O

23. SoundTrip
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Hi yorokobi,

    A mailing list would be a good idea. I will look around today to see if one exists and if not I will fire one up where we can all watch each others backs.

    Trip

24. prestonf
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I've gone through all of the links above and the only thing that I've discovered on my site was the creation of the "WordPress" admin user. I've deleted the user and associated metadata using PHPmyAdmin.

    However, the dashboard still prompts me to upgrade to 2.5.1. I've switched countless times between 2.5 and 2.5.1 using SVN.

    Any ideas from the community before I throw in the towel and hire a consultant to fix it for me?

25. yorokobi
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I'm still hunting. Here's what I've found so far..

    I chased the variables all over the code - so I know that get_bloginfo('version'); is going to report the value of $wp_version, which is SUPPOSED to be defined in the wp-includes/version.php file.

    I manually defined $wp_version to be 2.5.1 in the check version function, and the box went away - dashboard said I had 2.5.1. However, if I removed that line, it went back to "update now" and version 2.5 - even tho version.php clearly said 2.5.1

    Last thing I did was edit version.php so that $wp_version = 'ABCDEFG-2.5.1'. The damn thing says 2.5, so $wp_version is being redefined somewhere, but so far I can't find it.

    I even removed the ";" so that the version.php file would cause a crash, this was to be SURE it was being accessed, and it was.

    So somewhere after version.php is included, it's being redefined as 2.5 - another hack issue I'd wager...

    Update_core also says 2.5 - I even deleted it and when it was re-written, 2.5 was among the string, not 2.5.1

26. cyberdork33
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    i have checked several times over for signs of the mentioned hack on my site to no avail, and I am getting the version issue too.

27. gmsand
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    From what I see and read, there's a common thread to all or most of your problems and that is that you're 'overwriting' files versus deleting them and then uploading new.

    For instance: To upgrade to v2.51 what I did was find the list of files changed in the upgrade. It was apparent that nearly all of them were contained in the wp-admin and wp-includes directories and just three other files,
    >> wp-content\plugins\akismet\akismet.php
    >> wp-login.php (root directory)
    >> wp-settings.php (root directory)

    This was great news for me because all the theme files are in the W-P content directory and I run a 'heavily' modified site.

    So, all I did was delete the two above mentioned directories and files and then uploaded two new directories and the three necessary changed files. I then run the database upgrade script and sportsfans, I have had not even one little problem. As with most things, the devil is in the details. More often than not, we're our own worst enemies. I hope this was of some help.

    Happy blogging!

    Glenn

28. cicigabeltang
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I Just updated from 2.3.3 to 2.5.1 and got msg"ur wordpress is out of date, updated needs time, pls be patient" when I run the upgrade.php.

    I did everything carefully as I have done before, as well ref to the upgrading detail inf. But still got this.

    It makes me mad. I can access to my blog but not log in to the admin panel.

    Anyone can help?

29. SoundTrip
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Hi gmsand,

    In my case I wrote scripts that completely backs up all themes, plugins and user created content but not anything related to the wordpress core. I then nuke all files in the domain directory, apply a full fresh installation and reapply the themes and plugins and user specific data.

    There is possibly a file missing somewhere but then I would have imagined that I would have had problems on all the domains I upgraded. Fortunately for me the only issue I had was on the domains that showed signs of the exploit I referred to above.

    I wouldn't have been able to fix these issues without shell or sftp access combined with access to the database user and wp-options table.

    Obviously removing the user called 'wordpress' shouldn't fix anything so I believe the fix for me occurred when I manually removed the phantom active plugin from the database column for active plugins. This came in the form of a big string like ./../../../../../../../tmp. I don't know how the string got there, perhaps an installation bug or artifact or a plugin installed left it behind. Who knows. I didn not find this string in the databases of blogs that did not exhibit this upgrade issue.

    When I removed that entry all of my plugins became disabled so perhaps I munged the edit. I re-enabled them through the admin console and it was fine as were the blogs in question. In retrospect I would have manually disabled all the plugins through the admin console and then checked to see if that string was still in the database. If so I would have removed it at that time. In any event it worked for me.

    Whether or not all of this is attributable to a true exploit or an errant plug-in is still up for grabs IMHO. All I can tell you is that I found the http://wordpressphilippines.org/blog/has-your-wordpress-been-hacked-recently/
    article, cleaned up per it's suggestions and all was fine. The active plugins thing was actually contained in a user comment on that site.

    Two plugins that I use that have given me issues since 2.5 are the TinyMCE Advanced plugin that stopped working between 2.5 and 2.5.1 and the fluency admin console that worked fine for about a week then suddenly stopped working coincidentally around the date time stamped concurrent with the .pngg files. I have never been able to get fluency to work (firefox/css2) since then and have given up on it. The TinyMCE advanced was fixed with it's latest upgrade that came out a couple of days ago. These two plugins are common on all the domains hosted by me.

    I hope this gives more insight.

    I caution anyone mucking around in the database or file system to PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO BACK UP YOUR WORK AHEAD OF TIME!! It should only take about 10 minutes and will be well worth the time and effort.

    - Trip

30. zylzaku
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    gmsand,

    I did not overwrite; I deleted the files and uploaded new. The problem won't go away even after trying this again and downloading a fresh 2.5.1 latest from wordpress.org

    No sign of the hack either.

    What I do have in common with yorokobi and SoundTrip is that this issue only appeared for my second site but not on my first site (on the same domain but different sub-directories).

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