How do you update to 4.9.9 and NOT 5.0.1

You can grab any prior version at https://wordpress.org/download/releases/

This was how I updated for any websites that didn’t auto update:

Basically you need to call the wp_maybe_auto_update() function.

http://blog.birdhouse.org/2013/11/02/force-wordpress-auto-update/

I haven’t tried this yet, but if you have
define( ‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, minor );
in your wp-config.php, it should only do the minor update i.e. to 4.9.9

In my experience auto update, including a forced auto update using the wp_maybe_auto_update() function always sticks to minor updates as @juggledad says. So in my case it went from 4.9.8 to 4.9.9

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by candledigital.

@bsweb According to the docs:

WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE can be defined with one of three values, each producing a different behavior:

• Value of true – Development, minor, and major updates are all enabled
• Value of false – Development, minor, and major updates are all disabled
• Value of ‘minor’ – Minor updates are enabled, development, and major updates are disabled

So define( 'WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', true ); would update major versions.

thanks juggledad.

In my wp-config.php is the following:
define (‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, false)

If I understand this correctly, I have to change this now to the following:
define (‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, minor)

Is it correct that way? And do I have to change that later with version 5.x again?
I’m just surprised that it has worked the whole time so.

Many Thanks