WordPress Team Working on Daring Plan To Forcibly Update Old Websites

'The developers behind the WordPress open-source content management
system (CMS) are working on a plan to forcibly auto-update older
versions of the CMS to more recent releases. From a report:

The goal of this plan is to improve the security of the WordPress
ecosystem, and the internet as a whole, since WordPress installations
account for more than 34% of all internet websites. Officially
supported versions include only the last six WordPress major releases,
which currently are all the versions between v4.7 and v5.2. The plan
is to slowly auto-update old WordPress sites, starting with v3.7, to
the current minimum supported version, which is the v4.7 release.

The WordPress team said it plans to monitor this tiered forced
auto-update process for errors and site breakage. If there's something
massively wrong, then auto-update can be stopped altogether. If only a
few individual sites break, than those site will be rolled back to
their previous versions and the owner will be notified via email.'

-- source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/08/08/1523212

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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