I have to say (knock-on-wood) that using the WordPress Automatic Update feature is awesome.  So far I have experienced no technical difficulties by simply pressing the “Automatically Update” button, then after a few seconds, performs the steps below and “viola!”, it’s done.  Why can’t other software be so simple to upgrade?

Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.0.3.zip…

Unpacking the update…

Verifying the unpacked files…

Installing the latest version…

Upgrading database…

WordPress updated successfully

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