Recently, Matt Mullneweg announced the release of WordPress 3.7, which is nicknamed Basie after Count Basie. Yes, with tradition, this is named after another jazz player. You can read up on Count Basie in Wikipedia.
The hugest thing about WordPress 3.7 is true automatic updates, rather than one click installs. Any security updates or in between smaller updates are to be automatically applied in the future.
Other updates are that WordPress will suggest stronger passwords and better global support for language add-ons and such.
Truthfully, I still want the option to control my updates. In fact, my own update for 3.7 wasn’t as smooth as I had liked compared to my beta site I’ve been testing 3.7 release candidates on.
My site was that upon clicking he update to WordPress 3.7 link in my backend and going through the update, my browser displayed a “No data received” page and I had to reload. When I reloaded, I got a generic “WordPress has been updated” page. I went ahead and put a request to disable automatic updates as I am really picky and want to make sure even for my live site that things go smoothly.
I went ahead and submitted my issue and request for being able to disable the new automatic updates put into 3.7 to the Alpha/Beta forum in the WordPress Support forum.
UPDATE: You can turn off automatic updates, but according to the WordPress 3.7 Master List post, they frown upon it… due to the fact these smaller updates are security updates.
There are several options to disable automatic upgrades according to the Configuring Automatic Background Updates page in the Codex.
Again, this is not a recommended solution for everyone, but it is available if you prefer it, or may need to.
Just a heads up, WordPress 3.8 has been worked on simultaneously and should be around the corner. Some of the talks in Make.WordPress.org these past months were toward API, MD6 proposal for options of other styled user interfaces for the WordPress backend, and other ideas. Whether those make it to 3.8 or beyond depends on the community overall.
Yes, the update is now available and I have updated it.
But it has brought something like automatic updates, what does that mean?
Will it automatically update all the plugins and themes without asking us?
I have already upgraded my WordPress blog and i can feel the increased speed of my blogs. thanks.
This version is so very good. Have more security than version 3.6.1 and it very easy to use
I’m still waiting for them to fix the problem with xmlrpc.php being exploited. My web host keeps having to disable my account due to this file being easily accessed, the only way I’ve come up with dealing with this is to delete the file, I just hope it isn’t an important file.
Really helpful information Niles. I normally wait at least a week before installing the latest WP updates – learned that the hard way. So right now I’m just reading about what every one is experiencing with it. Fortunately in the 4 years I’ve been online there’s only been one update I had a problem with (knock on wood!).
Hi Nile. I’m not a fan of automatic updates for any software. It doesn’t matter to me how small the update may be, I just prefer to apply updates when I am ready. I never apply any update as soon as it’s released; I wait until it seems like its stable any won’t have a negative impact before I update. If an option is available to turn off the automatic update, that’s what I’ll choose.
Good stuff here Nile. I usually wait a week and hope for the best with updates and have been very successful (read lucky) with that approach. I’m hopeful automatic updates doesn’t cause any problems in the future but I won’t be disabling them. I figure they know what is best!
Like Marquita said , I will wait at least a week, but more likely a month before upgrading. I read somewhere that Yoast was having problems with the new version, although that may be rectified now.
hi thanks for this article about word press 3.7 i also updated mine to this version
Thanks for pulling up the history of the nickname! I have already updated my blogs to latest v3.7. The background updates are cool, but I am more looking forward to developers API in this build. WordPress nightly builds are doing great work.
I updated last week and so far so good.
Automatic updates sounds good to me as long as I have a choice to stop them when need be. As for the 3.8, fingers crossed!
i have updated before 4 days it’s nice
I have updated my wordpress to this version. It is nice to use and is more secure.
Hi Nile,
thanks for the ‘heads up’!
Automatic updates? How does that work in regards to having a back up and everything else updated first? Is that not important anymore?
When I was in my back office there was the option to update to 3.7. , so haven’t they implemented that yet?
Thanks for the links to read up on more!
Cheers,
Yorinda
It is more promising than old versions. They seems to have fixed trackback and pingback spams too.
Nile, thanks for letting us know about the new version. One note I would love to add is that I was unable to use Wp-Admin after updating, I had to disable all plugins and reinstall wordpress, that was a nightmare!!!
hello Nile
YA this new update of WordPress has been come and I updated it. Thanks for the article.
thanks for the update, now updating some of the my wordpress blog to this latest version.