WordPress Auto-Update System Misfires, Updating Live Sites to an Alpha Release

WordPress’ Core systems team had an eventful Friday when an error in the auto-update system caused sites to update to WordPress 5.5.3-alpha-49449, including live production sites with no auto-update constants defined. I just had a random production site auto-update itself to #WordPress 5.5.3-alpha 😨 Anyone else seeing this? — Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) October 30, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Those who received an …