Auto-upgrades moved me from 3.9 to 4.0-alpha

[leewillis77]

At 20.30 (BST) I received an auto-upgrade email from my site (Which has standard settings, e.g. minor updates only. The email read:

"Your site at ​http://xxxxxxxx has been updated automatically to WordPress 3.9.1. No further action is needed on your part. For more on version 3.9.1, see the About WordPress screen: ​http://xxxxxxxxxx/wp-admin/about.php If you experience any issues or need support, the volunteers in the WordPress.org support forums may be able to help. ​https://wordpress.org/support/ You also have some plugins or themes with updates available. Update them now: ​http://xxxxxxxx/wp-admin/ The WordPress Team

However, on the updates page within WordPress I'm currently receiving the message:

"BETA TESTERS: This site is set up to install updates of future beta versions automatically."

This site shouldn't be set up to run beta releases. The "At a glance" panel in WordPress admin reports the version number as "WordPress 4.0-alpha".

This should not be the case.

wp-includes/version.php indeed reports that 4.0-alpha has been installed.

$wp_version = '4.0-alpha';
$wp_db_version = 27916;
$tinymce_version = '4021-20140423';
$required_php_version = '5.2.4';
$required_mysql_version = '5.0';
$wp_local_package = 'en_GB';

For reference I was running the en_GB version.

[ocean90]

Duplicate of #28179.

[leewillis77]

Thanks for the swift reply. While I get the fact that this is a translation issue - is it also something that the core upgrade process should catch itself?

[leewillis77]

Related: This causes confusion: ​http://wordpress.org/support/topic/running-v40-alpha-and-i-dont-know-why?replies=5#post-5555313

[nacin]

Replying to leewillis77:

Thanks for the swift reply. While I get the fact that this is a translation issue - is it also something that the core upgrade process should catch itself?

Core can't catch it, but WordPress.org can/should/will. We're going to be rewriting mostly everything as part of some 4.0 work, so this won't be able to happen again.