[…] The same concerns that were brought up when automatic updates were announced are still being voiced. The biggest concern users have is not being able to easily go back to a working version of WordPress should something break. At the crux of this particular concern is that automatic updates prevent people from creating backups immediately before the update process. The update process has failsafe after failsafe to prevent catastrophes from happening but there is no guarantee. By default in WordPress 3.7 and above, the only updates that will happen automatically are minor and security releases. Although they have different names, these releases can sometimes be the same thing. Andrew Nacin explained the differences. …