Daniel Bachhuber, maintainer of WP-CLI, a popular command line interface utility for managing WordPress sites, has released version 0.23.0. This release includes a number of bug fixes, improvements, and features, but the most important thing to note is that earlier versions of WP-CLI will not work with WordPress 4.5.
According to Bachhuber, WordPress 4.5 loads a file in wp-settings.php and since WP-CLI uses a custom wp-settings-cli.php file, 0.23.0 and above are the only versions compatible with WordPress 4.5. Bachhuber created a new ticket on Trac to start a discussion on using wp-settings.php instead of the custom file.
“WP-CLI uses a custom wp-settings-cli.php to load WordPress, instead of wp-settings.php,” Bachhuber said. “While I appreciate the historical justifications for the bootstrap process, it would be much better if WP-CLI could use wp-settings.php because, occasionally, there are substantial problems arising from needing to maintain a fork.”
To see a full list of changes with detailed explanations on how to use new features such as installing community commands from the package index, check out the release post.
More like WordPress 4.5 Requires WP-CLI v 0.23… .23 still works with older versions of WP but once upgraded to WP 4.5 older versions of wp-cli will no longer work. Title is just misleading.