[BlueOnyx:24533] Re: Software Updates

[Greg Kuhnert]

Hi David.

When you update in swupdate, it will update the AVAILABLE copy of wordpress for new installs. There is a facility in all wham modules to also update at site level. However, some modules do their own auto-updating under the hood. If wordpress in this case is updating itself, you can safely stay with that without doing anything else. I would however recommend still updating to the newest wordpress via swupdate, to keep the newest available version available for fresh site installs.

As to your question of PHP versions, thats a little app specific. It depends if the later PHP will break things for your app. As a rule of thumb, updates to PHP within the same version “train” will not cause issues. Its only when you do a major upgrade that there may be issues. But if we look at Wordpress specifically, they generally update to work with recent PHP versions. Give it a try. If you have any issues, you can downgrade again.

GK

> On 25 Nov 2020, at 8:13 am, David Hahn <blueonyx at sb9.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I see I have some new updates. One is a update from 5.51 to WordPress 5.5.2 and the other is PHP 7.4.10 to 7.4.12-1.
> 
> The current version of WordPress we have is 5.5.3 and php is 7.4.10. It seems that WordPress auto updates itself
> 
> outside of BlueOnyx. (currently with that combo they are working fantastic)
> 
> My question(s) are, should the vsites with WordPress be updated to the lower version or left alone (will that keep the alert on in BO),
> 
> and does the WHAM module update all the sites that have that module installed or will it need to be done manually?
> 
> I was planing to update our PHP to the newest version. Should the sites with WP switch to the newest version of php as well to keep it all current?
> 
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