WebDrake

I’m now regularly getting email alerts from my website:

Hiya! Your site … has been updated automatically to WordPress 4.0-alpha-20140508.

Can I take this as being just a side-effect of the problem with the en-GB upgrade, or is my blog now genuinely updating to latest alpha versions?

I guess the outstanding concern I have now is: will auto-updates _really_ upgrade me to alpha versions if I don’t disable them?

Dave Naylor wrote:

If your WordPress version is showing “4.0-alpha” rather than “3.9” for a non US English install this is due to an incorrect localization build for your language.

Ah, that would explain it. It is indeed an en-GB website. I guess it should be sufficient then to just wait for an upgrade fix? (I’m happy to try the manual tweaking of version numbers mentioned in your link, but would rather not if I don’t have to.)

Thanks very much for the explanation!

For clarity, I know that I ought to be able to wipe everything and restore the site with a fresh install of 3.9.1 and a database backup. I was asking about manual downgrade to check if it was possible to do this while _avoiding_ recreating the database. ??

Yes. I have one draft post which I’d lose but otherwise all ought to be OK backup-wise.

I didn’t know, but had feared that. ??

Thanks very much for pointing me to _s! This looks very cool indeed.

I’m aware that it’s still in draft format, and I appreciate the frustration this causes.

That said, the <hgroup> tag seems fairly definitively gone (with pubdate it seems less certain). It’s been over a year since a new version of Toolbox was released, so I thought it was worth flagging in case any new release was planned.

Hopefully it should all get sorted out next year when the standard should be finalized …

I can correct the local copy of Toolbox on my own site, although I’m always happy to receive other people’s advice on the best way to do so. ??

I just wanted to make sure the issue was reported so that a future release of Toolbox can correct the problems. If there’s a specific bugzilla where I should post this, just let me know, and I’ll make a report there.