WordPress 3.7.1 was released October 29, 2013, just 5 days after version 3.7. This maintenance release includes 11 bug fixes.
According to WordPress.org, if you've already upgraded to WordPress 3.7, the new automatic background updates should take care of this for you in the next few hours. Note: This will only work if your site supports the automatic update.
Not sure if your site will run the automatic update? You can check by installing the Background Update Tester plugin. (Tip: After you've run the tester, be sure to deactivate and delete the plugin. No need to keep it on the server if you're not using it.)
Here's a summary of the WordPress 3.7.1 bug fixes:
- Images with captions no longer appear broken in the visual editor.
- Allow some sites running on old or poorly configured servers to continue to check for updates from WordPress.org.
- Avoid fatal errors with certain plugins that were incorrectly calling some WordPress functions too early
- Fix hierarchical sorting in get_pages(), exclusions in wp_list_categories(), and in_category() when called with empty values.
- Fix a warning that may occur in certain setups while performing a search, and a few other notices.
Here's a list of revised files including in this update:
- wp-admin/includes/plugin-install.php
- wp-admin/includes/theme.php
- wp-admin/includes/update-core.php
- wp-admin/includes/update.php
- wp-admin/includes/class-wp-upgrader.php
- wp-admin/credits.php
- wp-admin/update-core.php
- wp-admin/about.php
- wp-admin/freedoms.php
- wp-includes/default-constants.php
- wp-includes/option.php
- wp-includes/taxonomy.php
- wp-includes/post.php
- wp-includes/query.php
- wp-includes/l10n.php
- wp-includes/user.php
- wp-includes/version.php
- wp-includes/update.php
- wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wpeditimage/editor_plugin_src.js
- wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wpeditimage/editor_plugin.js
- wp-includes/js/tinymce/wp-tinymce.js.gz
- wp-includes/category-template.php
Also, hop on over to the WordPress 3.7 Master List and check out any issues being reported.
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Let us know if the automatic update to WordPress 3.7.1 worked for you. And have you found any WordPress plugin or theme conflicts with WordPress 3.7 or WordPress 3.7.1? Please share by leaving your comment below.
I have several websites that don’t auto-update to 3.7.1, they all run on the Twenty Eleven theme. My site with the Twenty Thirteen theme updated automatically.
Hi Ruth,
Interesting that the others did not update.
If you have WordPress 3.7 already, I would wait till tomorrow and see if it’s been updated otherwise you may just want to update them within the Dashboard.
I haven’t even updated to 3.7 yet. Yikes!
I don’t know how I feel about automatic updates, though. I know it will only push through minor releases and not the major ones, but I still worry about not seeing what’s happening, and the potential for something to break and me not able to figure out which plugin/theme/whatever caused the issue.
Great point Cindy!
I upgraded a website yesterday morning to WordPress 3.7 and had no issues, but noticed that the automatic update did not happen when I check this morning. Not sure how long they take before it updates. Will be running the automatic update checker to find out today.
Same for me Regina – update for 3.7.1 just sitting there.
I have 2 sites that I had updated to 3.7. On the first one it had not automatically updated to 3.7.1 but after I updated a couple of plugins, I noticed that it also updated to 3.7.1. On the second, even after updating plugins, it still prompted me to update to 3.7.1. I left it to see if it would automatically update at some point.
Thanks for the info Christine.
Interesting that it seemed to “wake up” after you did a couple of plugin updates.
Hi Regina
3.7.1 Update sitting there… waiting for me to update!
I’ll check again later.
Hi Keith,
Try this…
Go to Dashboards > Updates > Check again.
Then go to your Dashboard and see if it’s updated.
If not, click on Plugins and then back to Dashboard.
I did that and it seemed to wake up an update
Just had emails saying 3 of my sites have updated.
So far so good.
I’m using same as you, Genesis, on all my sites.
No it did not auto-update on any of my sites…
Hi,
I was planning to update my site(blog site) which running genesis 1 and an old version of wordpress. If I update this on right now. What possible problem should i face? by the way its a custom blog.. I am afraid to update it now. I might lost my files .. thanks
Hi Cheryl,
What version of WordPress do you have? To safely update you should not go more than 2 major upgrades, example: if you have version 3.5.x then upgrading to 3.7.1 should not be a problem. If you have anything older than 3.5, then you should do it in stages, i.e. 3.1 to 3.3, 3.3 to 3.5, etc.
For Genesis, if you’re using a child theme then it should be okay to upgrade. If you customized the Genesis files themselves, you will lose those changes with the upgrade and should be done manually. However, I would be leary about pushing the upgrade from Genesis 1 to Genesis 2 since it was such a big change in framework. Be sure to make a complete backup of your database and site files first.
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