WordPress 4.2.3 Update Breaks Future Auto-Updates

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This only applies to people using the self-hosted version of WordPress, WordPress.org

WordPress.org has announced that WordPress 4.2.3 inadvertently introduced a bug that breaks auto-updates in future versions.

WordPress has fixed it the bug in version 4.9.4.

You read read more about it here.

If you self-host, here's what you need to do:


  1. Log on to your WordPress Dashboard
  2. Look in the bottom right corner; does it say 4.9.4?
    You're fine.
  3. If it displays an earlier version number, then you need to update manually to WordPress 4.9.4
  4. Go to your Dashboard
  5. Click Updates
  6. Click Update Now.
  7. When it's finished updating, look at the bottom right corner of your Dashboard, and make sure it says 4.9.4