WordPress 4.0.1 Released – Critical Security Update for Older Versions
WordPress 4.0.1 was released today. This is an important update, containing several security tweaks/fixes for 4.0.
Also, updates were released for WP 3.9.2, 3.8.4, and 3.7.4. These older versions are receiving a critical security fix.
Automatic Updates
For those of you using the built-in WordPress automatic updates, as minor upgrades (0.0.1), these will be automatically applied.
If you are allowing Lightning Base to update your installs, these updates are rolling out starting a short time ago and through tonight. They will be applied to anyone enabling core updates – whether they have selected minor or all available core upgrades. As usual, a local backup will be taken for immediate rollback if there are any problems, but it’s unlikely there will be a problem with a minor update like this.
Manual Updates
If you do not have automatic updates enabled (not sure? Please ask!), then I strongly encourage you to immediately login to your WP site, and click the “Updates” menu icon in the top-left. Update the WordPress core and you will be protected from these security problems. Again, issues with the update should be extremely uncommon, I would not hesitate to update sites right away. If you do have any issues, we always have our nightly backups available for restore.
Questions?
If you have any questions about updates, please login to https://secure.lightningbase.com and open a ticket, we will be happy to help.
