Getting Notified of an Available Upgrade

After you install WordPress and log in for the first time, you can see the version number at the bottom-right corner of the WordPress Dashboard, as shown in Fig

its platform roughly once every 120 days (or every 4 months). That chapter also explains why you need to keep your WordPress software up-to-date by using the most recent version for security purposes, mostly, but also to make sure you’re taking advantage of all the latest features the WordPress developers pack within every major new release.
In this chapter, you discover the WordPress upgrade notification system
and find out what to do when WordPress notifies you that a new version
is available. This chapter also covers the best practices to upgrade the
WordPress platform on your site to ensure the best possible outcome
(that is, how not to break your Web site after a WordPress upgrade).

ure 6-1. Therefore, if anyone asks what version you’re using, you know exactly where to look to find out.