InstantUpgrade 1.0-alpha1 — testers needed!
Alex Günsche · 30. Mai 2007
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The InstantUpgrade plugin has gained very much attention and positive feedback during the last weeks. Now it’s time for a new era: I’ve created a version of the plugin that will make the installation and usage significantly easier. While with 0.x versions it was neccessary to change tons of permissions on most hosts, the new version offers file transfer via FTP with the users credentials, so no permissions must be changed at all!
However, the new features, especially the FTP transfer, need very much testing before we can release it to the general public. Therefore I’d ask everybody to install the new version in their test environments and review the plugin extensively. Note: Please don’t use this version in productive environments yet.
Usage is as follows:
- Download it (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2 .zip, .7z)
- Upload
instantupgradeto your plugin directory - Activate it
- Go to InstantUpgrade » InstantUpgrade Configuration
- Select FTP as method (HTTP can also be used, installation/usage same as earlier versions)
- Enter FTP credentials
- Go to InstantUpgrade
- Select version (latest or arbitrary)
- Start upgrade
If you encounter errors during the installation which you think are errors of the plugin, please report them. After installation, please check your WordPress installation, and if you notice errors, please report them, too.
You can report bugs as comments below this post (please not at the plugin’s home page), or you can use our bugtracker. Any notice of what could be improved is welcome, same goes for questions, feature requests, etc. Please do also provide information about your testing environment.
Everybody who provides substantial feedback will be named (w/ link) in the final release announcement, so I hope you all get a piece of the fame. 
Update (31.05, 14:28): The author of the FTP library, Alexey Dotsenko, has said he will put his work under the GNU LGPL. 
