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Re: WordPress › WordPress 3.2 now available

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Post by demetris »

arkitaip wrote: post #2

I can't update my site (shared hosting) from 3.1.4 to 2.3 because it requires PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0. Hope the Wordpress team keeps releasing updates for the 3.1.x branch.

Usually you get fixes for a WordPress release up until the first beta of the +2 release is out. That is, for 3.1, up until 3.3 Beta 1 is out.

I don’t know if 3.1, the last release that works with PHP4, will receive special treatment.

Re: WordPress › WordPress 3.2 now available

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Post by iphoneedbot »

I suspect this will break alot of blogs because wordpress got a lot of users very use to the update button starting from 2.8 with their frequent update releases. There's a lot of webhost that's barely on php5 -- plus there's alot of VPS users that don't really manage their VPS and keep their php properly update.

Re: WordPress › WordPress 3.2 now available

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Post by devicenull »

sucuri2 wrote: post #5

The only issue now is their PHP 5.2.4 requirement which will keep from 15-20% of the users unable to update it: http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/07/wordpress-3-2-and-php-support...

The only way to get people to bug their hosts about upgrading PHP is to release popular software that requires it.. Without the demand to upgrade to higher versions, no host is going to bother.
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