As WordPress 5.0 is a major release, it will not auto-update.
It should be noted that I also saw that email from WPML, and it’s not entirely accurate.
For the most part, plugins and themes will work just as before, anything that interacts with the editor it self will likely need to be updated though.
I’m also moving this topic out of the Alpha/Beta forum, as it’s not a problem with either, but more a general question about updates 🙂
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Jan Dembowski
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Will WordPress 5.0 update automatically?
tl;dr Nope.
Major bug? Because unfortunately, yes!
I had “automatically apply minor updates” activated in my 4.x settings but unfortunately I got 5.0 installed last night. I have to roll back manually now. I REALLY don’t need or want a “.0” version.
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This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by
mar3ld.
This topic should not be marked as solved. :-0
Andrew Nevins
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@mar3ld, That’s not your choice because it’s not your thread.
My experience is different.
Two of my sites updated themselves overnight (08/09/12), having asked me for a couple of days if I wanted to update, which I didn’t until I’d done some testing. Fortunately they both work.
One on another server hasn’t (yet), so I guess there is some difference in the s/w installed. The two that updated had sent a message via Sofaculous saying an update was available but not that it was going to be applied.
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
WordPress can be set to automatically update, so that’s maybe what happened for your case. If you want to explore what happened, open a support topic on the troubleshooting forum: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/#new-post
Thank you Andrew. I will investigate further.
