Wordpress released version 4.2.2 a week ago with some important security updates. As someone who owns multiple WP installs, it is critical for me to get these updated asap. I am sure there are quite a few members on HN that fall in this category too.
And if you manage multiple WordPress websites, try something like InfiniteWP. It takes care of updating core, plugins, and themes. We use it to manage about 23 WordPress websites and being able to update all of your websites with a couple of clicks is an incredible timesaver. We still do manually review everything though (like changelogs, making sure the site still loads and isn't a WSOD, etc.)<p>We like InfiniteWP because it's free and we can host it ourselves (we've had no need for their paid addons), but there's also other solutions like MainWP, ManageWP, WP Remote, iControlWP, CMS Commander, etc. I think most (if not all) of those are hosted and paid / free trial.
As someone who owns multiple WP installs, I have added "define( 'WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', true );" to all my wp-config.php files so that all my installs automatically self update with ALL future updates, minor & major
I'm not a big fan of wordpress but it is undoubtedly a great tool to have in your toolbox, specially when your customers need user-friendly blogging tools or a quick CMS. I've installed for some of my clients Django blogs (with Django-CMS), rails-based blogs, and even a couple of Ghost installs. Nothing has beaten wordpress so far, clients love its versatility...<p>What I do to fly <i>under the radar</i> of many of the bots and automated scripts targeting wordpress sites is using a modern wp framework: roots bedrock[0]. This gives you a convenient time windows to update wp when you have the time (although with bedrock it is really easy with a couple of commands)<p>[0] <a href="https://roots.io/bedrock/" rel="nofollow">https://roots.io/bedrock/</a>
For the first time I got an email from my Wordpress installation yesterday, asking me to update. Have not seen that before. A nice detail I appreciate, so I don't have to keep up with what i the latest release of Wordpress at all times.