Plugin Author
wpseek
(@alphawolf)
Hi Matthew,
short answer: Not a fake but a compatibility update for the plugin’s readme.txt file. In fact, the update was just an update of the readme.txt file on the SVN servers.
long answer: Recently the guys at WordPress.org sent out a friendly reminder to plugin authors that WP 4.4 is close to being released and we should be checking compatibility of our plugins and – if needed – adjust our compatibility info. That’s what the update did. 🙂 The reason I chose 4.4.9999 is that it’s most unlikely that breaking code changes happen for minor updates such as 4.4.1, 4.4.2 etc… So in order to not having to update my readme.txt compatibility info with each minor release of WP I am using 4.4.9999 which covers all future minor and security updates of the 4.4 branch.
Hope that answers your question. 🙂
Thread Starter
Matthew
(@kidsguide)
That makes more sense. I though you were thinking that there was a 4.4.9999 version of WordPress or something. I also didn’t notice that you didn’t change the version number or add a new tag so that everyone would have to update the plugin in there Dashboard.
Anyway, kudos on making sure you keep the capability info up to date.
