WordPress 3.5.1 was recently released, and as always, we’ve updated our WordPress one-click installer to automatically install the latest version for new WordPress sites.
If you’ve previously installed WordPress, you can upgrade it from within your WordPress Dashboard.
As a reminder, you should always update immediately when WordPress tells you there’s a new version available in the Dashboard. Don’t let yourself get behind, because it gets more difficult to update smoothly if you’re several versions out-of-date.
In addition, don’t avoid upgrading just because the upgrade screen says you should make a backup of your WordPress files and database first: we already make backups for you, automatically, every day.
There were two brief outages on the web11 server on January 28, 2013, at about 8:09 AM and 8:46 AM Pacific time.
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The PHP developers have announced the release of version 5.3.21 that fixes several bugs.
We’ve upgraded PHP 5.3.20 to PHP 5.3.21 on our servers as a result.
Update: The maintenance described below was completed with less than 5 minutes downtime.
At 11:00 PM Pacific time January 18 2013, the “web04” server will be restarted.
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One of the options we offer to speed up busy PHP sites is called eAccelerator. However, eAccelerator doesn’t usually help for low volume sites, so we’ve disabled it by default in those cases. The rest of this post explains more.
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