UpdraftPlus 1.9.42 has just been released, for all users.
If fixes a significant bug in last week’s release of UpdraftPlus 1.9.40 and 1.9.41 which could cause uploads of backups to remote storage to prematurely fail, leaving the backup set being stored on your webserver.
It also resolves an issue in paid versions of UpdraftPlus 1.9.40 which prevented the dashboard page working properly on older versions of WordPress (3.1 – 3.5). If you were running such an old version, then updating will make things work again. Though, you really need to upgrade: anything before WordPress 3.7 has known serious security holes in it, so you should backup and then upgrade asap to stay secure.
As such, we recommend that all users update immediately.
David Anderson (founder, lead developer, UpdraftPlus)
Hey David –
I use WPRemote.com to manage my client sites… This morning I started updating them from 1.9.31. Most of them showed an update available for 1.9.41, and then once I updated to .41, the update to 1.9.42 showed as available.
However, once I updated from 1.9.41 to 1.9.42, suddenly it looks like the sites are running the free version of UPD! There’s no “Add Ons” tab at all, and there’s nowhere for me to enter my UPD username & password…and there is promotional text for your services in multiple places.
If I run the .41 to .42 manually within the dashboard, it seems to update just fine…The problem is only when I use WP Remote to do the update.
Any ideas?
I just manually removed the free version and reinstalled the paid version and all seems fine. So this wasn’t a huge deal – but it does seem odd that the remote update triggered the update to the free version instead of the paid one (and only going from .41 to .42 — updating from .31 to .41 worked correctly).
Hi Andrew,
Sounds like a bug in WPRemote – that it’s not hooking into the right bits of WP to get the updates from the right place, and is instead going to the free wordpress.org directory. You’ll want to alert them of that – it’s something their plugin is doing; UD hooks into the right places in WordPress to alert it of where’s the correct place to get updates from; that’s why when you update from the WP dashboard, you get the proper updates.
David