The WordPress development team inadvertently caused chaos for several website owners after a series of planned updates went awry. The update, WordPress 5.5.2, was intended to fix critical security issues, but it also made it impossible to install WordPress on new sites where a database connection was not set up. The WordPress team hit pause for more updates, but ignored the auto-update feature, which then pushed an alpha build of the platform to users. The alpha version introduced new themes and a spam protection plugin. Users who do not remove them will need to keep them up to date to ensure they never pose a security risk. “While working to prepare WordPress 5.5.3, the release team attempted to make 5.5.2 unavailable for download on WordPress.org to limit the spread of the issue noted in the previous section, because the bug only affected the new facilities. », Explains Jake Spurlock, security release manager at WordPress. "This action resulted in some installations being upgraded to a preview version '5.5.3-alpha'."