Patching up Worpress 1.5.1 to fix feeds

Posted on May 21, 2005 by Sandip Bhattacharya

So WordPress just released [1.5.1.1][1] to fix the [RSS problem][2] which has bitten me badly too. The trouble is that I am getting sick of their manual [upgrade][3] steps – backup, overwrite, restore, etc. etc. when the only changes have been to the core files!

I wonder why they can’t release very minor releases (e.g. 1.5.1.1) as *patches*. Even minor releases (e.g. 1.5.1) can be released as patches – the database changes can be handled using the upgrade script which can itself be available as a patch.

Granted that patch is available only on Unix systems and that also on systems where you have shell access. But again, the general release is always available as a full download anyway, right?

Take this bugfix release for example. [Here is the patch file][4] I created for the 1.5.1.1 release. To upgrade all you have to do is to change directory to the wordpress root, and run `patch -p1 < wordpress-1.5.1.1.patch`. That is it! You have upgraded!

[1]: http://wordpress.org/development/2005/05/one-five-one/
[2]: http://fernando.dubtribe.com/archives/2005/05/10/solution-to-wp151-rss-errors/
[3]: http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress
[4]: http://www.sandipb.net/downloads/wordpress-1.5.1.1.patch

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  • http://rajshekhar.net/blog Raj Shekhar

    Might I suggest a better alternative – http://www.s9y.org/ . Personally, I have sworn to stay off projects which have college students as their project leads. I am getting too old to live on the bleeding edge now and want things that just work without too much hassle :-)

  • http://rajshekhar.net/blog Raj Shekhar

    Might I suggest a better alternative – http://www.s9y.org/ . Personally, I have sworn to stay off projects which have college students as their project leads. I am getting too old to live on the bleeding edge now and want things that just work without too much hassle :-)