wp-admin says "1" Update in sidebar then I click and it disappears

[projectoscarwp]

Sometimes when I'm on the Dashboard the Sidebar will show 1 in the "Updates" link so I click it, and then it disappears on the reload and there is no update to be found on the page.

[dd32]

Have you ever noticed it happen with the Plugins menu at all? Or just the Dashboard update notification

[projectoscarwp]

Replying to dd32:

Have you ever noticed it happen with the Plugins menu at all? Or just the Dashboard update notification

The "Updates" notification has been the only one to appear solo. Whenever the "Plugins" notification appears, there is an update available and the "Updates" shows as well.

[duck_]

I imagine the reporter is using a plugin which obscures the WordPress version number, but only on the front end. If the version check cron is called from the front end the .org API will report the availability of an update. Go back to the admin and _maybe_update_core will clear this as it's hooked to admin_init, but not before the menu is built containing the update bubble. The bubble will be gone on the next page load.

wp_version_check and other related functions could include version.php instead of relying on the global (hat-tip nacin).

[dd32]

Throwing it back in with the rest of the tickets, We can probably implement nacin's idea in 3.2 however

[westi]

Replying to duck_:

wp_version_check and other related functions could include version.php instead of relying on the global (hat-tip nacin).

I'm almost tempted to make it a define but then people would abuse that instead and it would break the way wp-beta-tester works ;-)

[dd32]

I think we should go the include version.php method here, save potential problems.

[dd32]

(In [17619]) Ensure that the Update API's are always using a non-modified $wp_version. Props nacin. Fixes #14384

[westi]

This breaks the beta tester plugin

[dd32]

I've sent westi a patch for the beta tester plugin to use an alternate method here. It'll affect the usage of the plugin on 3.2 upgrading to 3.3-alpha or 3.2.x nightlies, so I'll leave this in trunk for now.

[ocean90]

westi, what is with the patch from dd32?

[westi]

Replying to ocean90:

westi, what is with the patch from dd32?

Committed (at last) ​http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/393346