For both your curl examples, the error is that your target is http: and not https: Either add https to the address, or use curl http://downloads.wordpress.org/release/wordpress-5.6-new-bundled.zip -L -L will follow redirects
Fast and easy solution would be to update manually. Download the wordpress package from wordpress.org and unpack to your server. https://wordpress.org/support/article/updating-wordpress/#manual-update
Have a look at what point in your code you’re making calls to the WordPress REST API or any other code which makes use of WP_Site_Health. If you’re making calls in your <theme>/functions.php file, for example, it won’t work because functions.php is included before class WP_Site_Health in wp-settings.php. See wp-settings.php code (WordPress 5.7.2): // Load … Read more
What file(s) in core control automatic background updates?
Automatic updates and merging manual changes
It took me a while to figure out exactly what was going on but it’s actually a problem with WordPress. Bullseye installs version 1.0.49 of PureFTPd where in Buster v1.0.47 was installed. According to PureFTPd’s changelog here, globbing was removed from the NLST command in v1.0.48 (which makes sense since it’s actually not allowed according … Read more
Updates for a private theme
I’ve seen this happen a couple of times where one of the database tables count of posts differs from the actual number and all the posts disappear. Using PHPMyAdmin and go into your WP database. Look down your columns (I think it’s the “Records” column) and see if any of them show corrupt or some … Read more
You can hook into in_plugin_update_message-{$file}. For the above plugin, the according code looks as follows: add_action(‘admin_menu’, array($this,’admin_menu’), 11); function admin_menu() { global $pagenow; if( $pagenow == ‘plugins.php’ ) { $hook = apply_filters(‘acf/get_info’, ‘hook’); add_action( ‘in_plugin_update_message-‘ . $hook, array($this, ‘in_plugin_update_message’), 10, 2 ); } } function in_plugin_update_message( $plugin_data, $r ) { $version = apply_filters(‘acf/get_info’, ‘version’); $readme … Read more
There is no general solution to this problem. Your solution will be specific to your situation, and unusable for many other users, and vice versa. All with their own varying tradeoffs. For example, some hosting companies spin up new instances with the new update, that then replace the old instances, but this is not possible … Read more