Upgrade to 2.6 using subversion Akismet breaks the site

  • I just upgraded my installation of WordPress to 2.6 using Subversion (following the instructions here – https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Installing/Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion) and after updating the database could no longer access the wp-admin pages.

    After a little checking I discovered that this was because the version of Akismet (2.1.4) that I was running is broken under WordPress 2.6. It would appear that the svn:external link to the Akismet version in Subversion hasn’t been updated to point to the latest version of Akismet (2.1.6).

    Downloading and installing the new version of the plugin by hand has resolved my problem but it would have been nice if the ‘svn switch’ had done it for me. As far as I can tell all this requires is that the external link to the Akismet code is updated in the WP repository.

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  • Thread Starter andy47

    (@andy47)

    I just did some tests and a fresh checkout of WP 2.6 (and 2.5 for that matter) fetches Akismet 2.1.6

    I can only presume that there was a problem with my svn switch that I didn’t pick up (or that didn’t produce an error message).

    This is the normal subversion behaviour, I believe: The svn:external link to the Akismet plugin points to the Akismet trunk before and after the svn switch, so nothing changes for it. You must run svn update afterward to update the Akismet plugin.

    The codex instructions should be updated to mention this step explicitly.

    It looks like the WP folkds removed the svn extermal for Akismet because v2.6 has the new plugin update functionality, from within the WP admin UI.

    I posted about this on my blog, and a fix for removing the svn external, which you no longer need:

    https://www.filsa.net/2008/09/10/svn-wp-contentpluginsakismet-is-not-a-working-copy/

    Cheers

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