Older WordPress updates?

  • Resolved mscott

    (@mscott)


    6 years, 2 months ago

    With the release of WordPress 4.9.3 and WordPress 4.9.4 – I noticed that there doesn’t appear to be any comparative updates to WordPress 4.8 – 3.7.

    Typically when an update is published for WordPress 4.9 (or whatever the latest tree is) an update is also pushed out to all other WordPress trees (4.8 through 3.7). But I’m not seeing that this time.

    Perhaps the issue only affected the WordPress 4.9 tree. Or is support for 4.8 through 3.7 being dropped? Or is this just an oversight? Or have you just not gotten around to publishing the 4.8 through 3.7 updates?

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    6 years, 2 months ago

    Are you trying to update WordPress version 3.7 to the latest 4.9.4?

    If so, follow these instructions:
    https://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_-_Extended_Instructions

    Thread Starter mscott

    (@mscott)

    6 years, 2 months ago

    No, I’m just curious if older versions of WordPress are going to be updated with whatever fix was put into 4.9.3 (or 4.9.4 which may be the case here).

    When WordPress 4.9.2 was released, WordPress also released WordPress 4.8.5 and WordPress 4.7.9, etc, etc. all the way down to WordPress 3.7.25.

    If you’ll note now the archive page at:

    https://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/

    Shows a version 4.8.5 which really came out with WordPress 4.9.2.

    If WordPress releases an update (i.e. WordPress 4.9.5) you’ll (typically – at least for the past several years) find a WordPress 4.8.6 (or WordPress 4.8.7 – I don’t know why a WordPress 4.8.6 wasn’t released alongside this WordPress 4.9.3/4.9.4 release) listed in the release archives.

    I understand that all of these old versions of WordPress may end at any time. Is that what has happened here? Do the older versions of WordPress not need the changes made from WordPress 4.9.2 -> WordPress 4.9.3/4.9.4? Has whoever backports the old WordPress versions forgotten to do this?

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    6 years, 2 months ago

    Only security fixes are backported to older versions. The fixes in 4.9.3/4.9.4 were not security related, but bug fixes only. Those generally are not backported.

    We recommend only running the latest version of WordPress. Security fixes are backported in an effort to keep the web as a whole safe and secure, however old versions are unsupported and can stop receiving updates at any time. In fact, it is quite likely that we’ll stop updating older disused versions like 3.7 soon.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    6 years, 2 months ago

    4.9.4 fixed a bug in 4.9.3 only, so there was no need to backport any security stuff to the older 4.8.x versions

    Thread Starter mscott

    (@mscott)

    6 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks!

    That’s what I wanted to know.

    Thread Starter mscott

    (@mscott)

    5 years, 11 months ago

    What about older WordPress releases now that WordPress 4.9.6 has been released?

    According to the release notes, WordPress 4.9.6 contained 51 bug fixes. Are those not going to be backported to WordPress 4.8, etc?

    Or did the bug fixes not apply to older WordPress branches?

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