id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
11254	update_usermeta and delete_usermeta do not update or destroy cache	mark8barnes	ryan	"User meta data is stored in the `$current_user` variable, which is created as GLOBAL by `get_currentuserinfo`. However, when `update_usermeta` and `delete_usermeta` are called, this variable remains unchanged.

Subsequent calls to `get_currentuserinfo` just return the existing global variable, and therefore return out of data meta information.

The solution is to check for the existence of the global variable `$current_user` within the `update_usermeta` and `delete_usermeta` functions and either update it or destroy it. Updating it might be more useful, and could be done without needing to recreate the whole variable.

The change could theoretically break plugins if they assumed the existence of the metadata in `$current_userinfo`, but I can't imagine why anyone would, and it would hardly be good practice if they did."	defect (bug)	closed	normal	3.3	Cache	2.8.5	minor	fixed	needs-testing has-patch	mark8barnes cronco