Thank you for the prompt reply.
Since my site is internal and I’m just testing, I temporarily changed the permissions to the entire WordPress directory and all sub-folders to Full Access for Everyone (I’m using Windows/IIS) and restarted IIS but the error is still occurring.
I also created a new temp folder in C:\inetpub\ with full permissions and changed the upload_tmp_dir variable in the php.ini file to point there but that didn’t help.
The error indicates that there is a syntax issue from an unexpected ‘[‘ which is why I was thinking that maybe the latest version isn’t liking something with the code syntax.
Any other suggestions as to what I could look for? Thank you