I was sent a link via email with instructions to download the old version… No apology or explanation. Just a link. I didn’t need it though – I had already rolled back. Because I’ve had so many issues upgrading this plugin over the past couple of years, I’ve made it a point to backup relentlessly. This is very disappointing and I feel the entire issue was handled poorly. Not only was I not notified of the new requirements, but sorting out the issue wasted hours of my time.
I don’t believe the underlying issue can be fixed without rolling out the new social lock code. I converted all of the offending arrays in the individual plugin files to PHP 5.3 compatibility but apparently, the Facebook SDK also requires 5.4 and so it produced errors as well.
Disappointed.