WP Core Team Responds Quickly to Critical Bug in 6.4
After WordPress 6.4 dropped on Tuesday, reports started coming in about issues relating to cURL which caused problems with the Stripe API, WP-Admin glitches, problems with the Oxygen page builder, and other performance issues.
The bug affected sites on hosts running out-of-date versions of cURL on their servers.
Pressable posted on X: “For those wondering if their Pressable sites are impacted by the recent cURL bug in WordPress 6.4: You’re safe. We don’t run ancient, security compromised versions of cURL from 2013.”
And further: “If this happened to you, do an immediate audit of your hosting. Seriously. This is a symptom of a major issue.”
The quick response from the WordPress team showcases the readiness of the contributors to address such crisis situations.
It also raises questions about testing protocols to avoid similar issues in the future.
When is the last time you talked to your hosting partner about their update policies for software like cURL?
Cloudflare published a thoughtful postmortem after their significant outage last week.
TLDR; A power outage at their primary data center was compounded by generator failures, and a cascade of communication and process failures by datacenter management.
“The overnight shift consisted of security and an unaccompanied technician who had only been on the job for a week.” 😬
Do the recent Cloudflare failures concern you?
Do you have adequate disaster planning in place for your agency’s primary functions if the worst happens to you?
During Monday’s inaugural Dev Day, OpenAI launched GPT-4 Turbo, and announced several new features coming to the platform.
GPT-4 Turbo roughly quadruples the amount of information ChatGPT can consider at a time, and now has a knowledge cutoff of April 2023.
Users can now create their own no-code GPTs trained on custom datasets (like emails, documents, knowledge bases, etc) and make them available in a new GPT Store later this month.
The DALL-E 3 image generator is now built into ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise.
