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Use official packages for 2.2

Posted in Uncategorized by Mark Jaquith on May 16th, 2007

I sat down to crank out some upgrade packages for 2.1.3 to 2.2, but fairly quickly realized that there wasn’t much point. So much has changed, that the upgrade packages would be enormous. A diff wouldn’t work because images have been added, and a whole bunch of files have been deleted, which means an upgrade would leave a bunch of cruft.

So if you’re upgrading to 2.2, just use the official packages. Cross-branch upgrade files just aren’t worth it.

I’ll have upgrade files for 2.0.11 once it is released, and if 2.2 sees any security/bugfix releases, I’ll do upgrade files for those too.

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  1. Will said, on May 18th, 2007 at 12:18 am

    Upgrading my blog now. :)

  2. DJ Allyn said, on May 18th, 2007 at 3:01 pm

    I just upgraded to WP 2.2 and now am seriously considering going back to WP 2.13.

    Why?

    WP 2.2 apparently doesn’t allow for line breaks in the comments. Everything is run together. There have been several support items about this and so far there seems to be no resolution yet.

  3. Bon said, on May 18th, 2007 at 8:35 pm

    DJ Allyn, are you using a plugin called “More Smilies”? Two of the reports I’ve read have determined that actually it’s this plugin causing the problem, not WP 2.2.

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  5. Mark Jaquith said, on May 22nd, 2007 at 10:26 am

    DJ, it’s definitely not a WP problem. I’ve also heard of the “More Smilies” plugin doing it, and there may be others. Look for plugins that modify the_content

  6. weefselkweekje said, on June 5th, 2007 at 8:39 am

    Hmm.. I usually copy everything but the wp-content folder to my webserver with my ftp client set to ‘overwrite’. Is there a list of files that are no longer needed, so I can remove them from my install?

    P.S. Thanks so much for your changed files releases. I maintain so many WP-based sites it saves me an incredible amount of time.

  7. TyskJohan said, on June 26th, 2007 at 1:11 am

    Mark,

    any chance of a 2.2 -> 2.2.1 changed files diff?

    -Johan

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