In reply to Jeff Chandler.

Dear Jeff,

Just for the record...

1.The plugin doesn't have 5 maintainers. When you see a plugin with many authors, not necessarily means that all of them have the same implication and/or responsabilities.
2. As you probably know WP.org repositories allows only commits from the user who submitted the plugin at first place (the owner). So it depends always on one person only to submit fixes.
3. Only that "owner" of the plugin receives notifications when a support thread for his plugin is created.
4. Not all people are in your timezone. 19 hours in your timezone can be much less working hours in the plugin's author country depending on the time difference due to different timezone.
5. I'm in the author list and I didn't receive any message from you about this (no email, no tweet, nothing...).

Apart from this. I think this post, and especially the title, is too far from being honest.

Serious bug? really?

It was affecting only to users who uses a certain feature, that requires the user to run it manually, and only in a particular scenario (with AffilliateWP installed or any other plugin with 'afw' in the options_name).

After more than 350.000 downloads, this was the first report of this bug (that was there for long time). So I honestly think that it was not too serious if after more than 350.000 downloads no one had the issue until now...

By the way, I have both plugins installed and never had the problem.

Best regards.