[Plugin: WordPress Automatic upgrade] Stuck in “Maintenance”

According to the plugin’s info page:

Compatible up to: 2.7.1

Also see:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_clear_the_.22Briefly_unavailable_for_scheduled_maintenance.22_message_after_doing_automatic_upgrade.3F

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Tools_Upgrade_SubPanel

Yep. Thanks for that.
I should probably just uninstall the WPAU, then?

Yes. I don’t know why it’s not okayed for 2.8, but based on your experience, it does seem to have problems.

Current version of wordpress comes with a built in update facility, so you dont need the plugin anymore.

A pity, though. The built in facility gave me problems; probably because some files/folders are owned by Apache, which might be a result of the WPAU updates in the past. (guessing)
And WP doesn’t have that nice automatic backup facility that WPAU offers

Interesting. I upgraded two sites. One upgraded with no glitches.

On the other one, the network I was on briefly blocked a page from loading, but then it reloaded and seemed to go through the upgrade just fine. But the site was left locked in maintenance mode.

There is no .maintenance file. I had to manually rename WPAU’s temporary index page and then change the backup index back to the index.php. Very disappointing.

Also disappointing is the lack of backup in the native upgrade.

I ran this plugin today for the first time.

It appeared to work, but my site is stuck in Maintenance Mode. There is no .maintenance file.

I am not able to access the contents of either of the backup files I downloaded.

The forum for the plugin has nothing but stale posts.

I’m seriously bummed out about this. *sigh*