{"id":126,"date":"2019-12-31T13:12:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T18:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/?p=126"},"modified":"2019-12-31T13:12:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T18:12:42","slug":"software-upgrade-deferred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/2019\/12\/31\/software-upgrade-deferred\/","title":{"rendered":"Software upgrade deferred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 5.3 came out a couple of months ago and PHP 7.4 came out last month, but the server won&#8217;t be getting updated to those just yet. It&#8217;s always safer to defer updating things for a while since updates often have unintended problems (Microsoft has certainly proven that with Windows 10 in the past few years). Since developers don&#8217;t seem to bother doing testing anymore, it&#8217;s better to wait until other people play guinea-pig before upgrading. (Also, PHP 7.4 doesnt&#8217; seem to be available in the Pi\/Buster repository yet and I&#8221;m not inclined to use third-party repositories anymore.)<\/p>\n<p>The server is (more or less) stable right now and changing things almost always reduces that, so as they say, if it ain&#8217;t broke, don&#8217;t fix it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 5.3 came out a couple of months ago and PHP 7.4 came out last month, but the server won&#8217;t be getting updated to those just yet. It&#8217;s always safer to defer updating things for a while since updates often have unintended problems (Microsoft has certainly proven that with Windows 10 in the past few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}