Mark A.

Never mind, it’s fixed now.

I’m happy to report that after having upgraded my WP installation to 2.8 – after 2 days of operation – I haven’t been presented with the nag. Hope I didn’t jinx it now.

I have upgraded to 2.7.1 since my original post, and like Dantes100, I am still getting the upgrade notification sporadically, although, unlike Dantes100, I am on a shared hosting server.

Yes, it works.

Sadly, yes, it still shows up, on and off. I think I’m just gonna ignore it, until hopefully a new WP release takes care of the issue.

Well, in wp-includes/update.php I changed:

$local_package = isset( $wp_local_package )? $wp_local_package : '';

to:

$local_package = $locale;

The update notification still appears, occasionally. ??

Hi miqrogroove, thank you for forwarding the issue to WP trac. I might also add the following:

1. The update notification is NOT persistent, in other words, sometimes it’s there, most other times it’s not.

2. Going through the WP trac change history page, someone suggested that the WP-Security plugin might have something to do with this issue. I do indeed have this plugin active (obfuscation of WP version).

I’ll go ahead and tinker some with the workarounds suggested on WP Trac. Thanks for looking into this.