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- The bug affected sites on hosts running out-of-date versions of cURL on their servers.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?
- https://wordpress.org/news/2023/11/wordpress-6-4-1-maintenance-release/
- https://wptavern.com/wordpress-6-4-1-fixes-a-critical-curl-requests-bug
What Happened to Cloudflare?
- 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?
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-mortem-on-cloudflare-control-plane-and-analytics-outage/
New ChatGPT Features Unveiled at OpenAI Dev Day
- 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.
- OpenAI’s Copy Shield program will defend businesses who use AI from copyright claims.
- Have you tried any of the new ChatGPT features? How will they impact your work?
- https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/06/everything-announced-at-openais-first-developer-event/
- https://openai.com/blog/new-models-and-developer-products-announced-at-devday
