Category: Updates

The Notre Dame Sites network has been updated to 5.2.2.

About the release.

This maintenance release fixes 13 bugs and adds a little bit of polish to the Site Health feature that made its debut in 5.2.

The Notre Dame Sites network has been updated to 5.2.

About the release

Accessibility Updates

A number of changes work together to improve contextual awareness and keyboard navigation flow for those using screen readers and other assistive technologies.

New Dashboard Icons

Thirteen new icons including Instagram, a suite of icons for BuddyPress, and rotated Earth icons for global inclusion. Find them in the Dashboard and have some fun!

Plugin Compatibility Checks

WordPress will now automatically determine if your site’s version of PHP is compatible with installed plugins. If the plugin requires a higher version of PHP than your site currently uses, WordPress will not allow you to activate it, preventing potential compatibility errors.

This morning we updated WordPress to 5.1.1 which is a maintenance and security release.

The primary focuses of 5.1.1 are:

• A pair of security fixes that handle how comments are filtered and then stored in the database.
• Hosts can now offer a button for their users to update PHP.
• The recommended PHP version used by the “Update PHP” notice can now be filtered.
• Several minor bug fixes.

The Notre Dame Sites network has been updated to 5.1.

About the release: Following WordPress 5.0 — a major release which introduced the new block editor — 5.1 focuses on polish, in particular by improving the overall performance of the editor. In addition, this release paves the way for a better, faster, and more secure WordPress with some essential tools for site administrators and developers.

The Notre Dame Sites network has been updated to 5.0.3.

For more information on the included releases:

• WordPress 5.0 “Bebo”
• WordPress 5.0.1 Security Release
• WordPress 5.0.2 Maintenance Release
• WordPress 5.0.3 Maintenance Release

We have enabled the Classic editor by default for all sites. If you would like to use the Block Editor (Gutenberg) on your site, go to “Settings > Allow users to switch editors”

This morning we updated WordPress to 4.9.8 which is a maintenance and security release.

The primary focuses of 4.9.8 are:

• Introduce “Try Gutenberg” callout
• Privacy fixes/enhancements

This version includes 18 Privacy fixes focused on ensuring consistency and flexibility in the new personal data tools added in 4.9.6, including:

• The type of request being confirmed is now included in the subject line for all privacy confirmation emails.
• Improved consistency with site name being used for privacy emails in multisite.
• Increased the test coverage for several core privacy functions.
• Pagination for Privacy request admin screens can now be adjusted.

This morning we updated WordPress to 4.9.7 which is a maintenance and security release.

From the WordPress 4.9.7 release post, WordPress versions 4.9.6 and earlier are affected by one security issue. As part of the core team’s ongoing commitment to security hardening, the following security and maintenance fixes have been implemented:

1. WordPress versions 4.9.6 and earlier are affected by a file deletion issue where a user with the capability to edit and delete media files could potentially manipulate media metadata to attempt to delete files outside the uploads directory.
2. Taxonomy: Improve cache handling for term queries.
3. Posts, Post Types: Clear post password cookie when logging out.
4. Widgets: Allow basic HTML tags in sidebar descriptions on Widgets admin screen.
5. Community Events Dashboard: Always show the nearest WordCamp if one is coming up, even if there are multiple Meetups happening first.
6. Privacy: Make sure default privacy policy content does not cause a fatal error when flushing rewrite rules outside of the admin context.

This morning we updated WordPress to 4.9.6 which is a privacy and maintenance release.

This maintenance release includes 37 enhancements, 51 bug fixes, and 2 tasks. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) related changes include Comments, Privacy Policy Page, and Data Handling.

This morning we updated WordPress to 4.9.5 which is a maintenance release.

This maintenance release fixes 28 bugs in 4.9, including fixes for Customizer, media library, error notices, and some security fixes. Twenty Seventeen bundled theme and Hello Dolly bundled plugin have also been updated.

This morning we updated WordPress to 4.9.4 which is a maintenance release.

This maintenance release fixes a severe bug in 4.9.3, which will cause sites that support automatic background updates to fail to update automatically, and will require action from you (or your host) for it to be updated to 4.9.4.