Early notfication of WordPress Releases

You could subscribe to the www.ads-software.com blog – https://www.ads-software.com/news/ which talks about what’s in development, not just what’s been released.

Thanks but that does not tell me “it’s happening tomorrow”… it tells me “It happened today”.

Not a big deal for releases that are not auto-updates but when you get 30+ messages that sites have been auto-updated, it really shakes up the day when it doesn’t go 100% smoothly.

See this page: https://make.www.ads-software.com/core/

It mentions the expected release date too:

WordPress 4.3 is in development. Features are being developed as plugins first.
The release is targeted for August 18th.
All posts tagged 4.3

Yes but where is the announced date for 4.2.4, 4.2.3?

Last info on 4.2.4 is

tl;dr WordPress 4.2.4 RC1 is available (download) for testing and fixes an issue with inline scripts.

I want to be able to tell clients “check your site tomorrow” – not yikes! your site updated. I need to know how to plan the day after the auto releases instead of getting blindsided. It makes us look like we don’t know what is going on in our field… so how CAN we know?

The auto-updates are generally minor and not something you’d need to warn/inform clients about. That’s why it’s safe to auto-update them, they’re much less likely to affect anything you have installed.

Sometimes there might be no prior notice, for example if a security issue forces a quick patch.

The news blog is pretty good at keeping you informed about what’s coming next, for the major versions that really do matter.

There’s this list of versions but it’s vague about upcoming updates – https://codex.www.ads-software.com/WordPress_Versions

Probably there’s some place that discussion takes place amongst core developers and plugin authors, but that might be in a forum, on Slack, no idea.

Have a feeling that the solution you’re looking for doesn’t involve reading blogs/ following slack discussions.

they’re much less likely to affect anything you have installed.

Jason – Rare or not – things DO happen. Who is going to take the heat?

the solution you’re looking for doesn’t involve reading blogs/ following slack discussions.

Andrew – thank you … you are right about that. It’s amazing with all of the WordPress sites in the world that notifications do not exist.

So… at least I am not missing something that everyone else knows about.

You could twitter follow @wordpress @wptavern @bobwp

That’s where I usually get my notice of updates.

There is no guarantee of a date, hence why advance notices can be a bit useless, something could be found last minute thus pushing the release date into the future.

I follow about 30 people from WP Community on twitter, above those 30 (plus 3 mentioned above), is usually enough.