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Your WordPress site’s age decides whether it installs major updates
Two sites with the same version of WordPress end up on two different releases after autoupdates: one takes a security patch, the other jumps a major version. Both outcomes are decided by an option no admin screen displays.
If you don't visit the bad neighbourhoods, the bad neighbourhoods will visit you.
Category: Failure Modes
How things break quietly. Set-and-forget settings that stop taking effect, tests that cannot fail, hidden defaults nobody chose, and the gap between what a system says and what it does.