[BlueOnyx:24534] Re: Software Updates

[Greg Kuhnert]

Oh. One more thing. I just kicked off a process to build wordpress 5.5.3 - it will be online a little later today.

GK

> On 25 Nov 2020, at 8:30 am, Greg Kuhnert <gkuhnert at compassnetworks.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 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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>> David Hahn - PageKeeper Service
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