After 4.3 update I'm unable to update plugins or themes

Glad to see I’m not the only one experiencing this.

Same issue here.

SSH2 credentials.

Samuel, how to I “downgrade” a plugin to ensure that it will upgrade properly in the future?

“Me too!” Same issue, also using SSH2.

Okay, definitely some kind of problem with the SSH updating case then.

Looking through the changelog, I only see one change of substance to the SSH code in the last 4 months (that being when 4.2 was released). Here is that change:

https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/changeset/32726/trunk/src/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ssh2.php

So, question: If you undo this specific change, does the problem get fixed? I don’t have an easy way to test the SSH code.

Nope. Same issue if I revert that change.

Okay, this whole process of checking was actually added intentionally in 4.3 to avoid an issue of partial plugin deletions.

https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/30921

I’m looking into it further.

Question: Are you able to update newly installed plugins?

Change a plugin’s version back by .1 or something, and try to update it.

Just tried to kick the version back on one I recently installed (after updating to 4.3) and it wouldn’t update.

Thanks for your help in figuring this out.

+1 for having the issue above.

let’s wait for WP code update

@killroyboy Can you email me directly with information so that I can look at the system myself? I have a workaround, but it’s a crappy one, and I’d like to try a few debugging steps first to see what the issue is. Probably won’t be able to get to it today, but tomorrow perhaps.

My email is [email protected].

For those of you who are hitting this – Do core updates work?

The problem here is that is_writable( $ssh_connection_with_filename ) is returning false – the problem being, that Core Updates have already been checking it and affecting core updates already. Edit: Seems core updates limited is_writable() to non-ssh/ftp updates, since it always returns true on FTP, so don’t worry about this question

Can you let us know what version of PHP & the SSH2 extension you’re using? there’s a good chance there’s a bug in the PHP extension, as it’s working for me on my 3 different distro test environments

In the meantime, you can also use the SFTP/SSH Update Support plugin to update via SSH – https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/ssh-sftp-updater-support/

The plugin does NOT use the ssh2 extension, so is far more compatible with more hosts & in my experience, more reliable/less buggy.

@dion Hulse

in my case i am using

extension version 0.12
libssh2 version 1.4.3
banner SSH-2.0-libssh2_1.4.3

PHP Version 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.11

Glad to know I am not the only one facing this issue.

Here are my details

PHP Version 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.11
extension version => 0.12
libssh2 version => 1.4.3
banner => SSH-2.0-libssh2_1.4.3