Title: Error message with 3.5
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Error message with 3.5

 *  [otravers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otravers/)
 * (@otravers)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-with-35/)
 * Since upgrading from WP 3.4.2, I see the following error message at the top of
   admin pages:
 * > Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in
   > C:[_edited local path_]\wp-content\plugins\wp-widget-cache\widget-cache.php
   > on line 529
 * This is on a XAMPP local dev environment hence the Windows path structure.

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