diff --git a/wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php b/wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php
index 248a9e51bd..6e68d0378d 100644
--- a/wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php
+++ b/wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php
@@ -5707,27 +5707,23 @@ class wp_xmlrpc_server extends IXR_Server {
 		//        if so, then let's use it and drop the old code.
 		$urltest = parse_url($pagelinkedto);
 		if ( $post_ID = url_to_postid($pagelinkedto) ) {
-			$way = 'url_to_postid()';
+			// $way
 		} elseif ( isset( $urltest['path'] ) && preg_match('#p/[0-9]{1,}#', $urltest['path'], $match) ) {
 			// the path defines the post_ID (archives/p/XXXX)
 			$blah = explode('/', $match[0]);
 			$post_ID = (int) $blah[1];
-			$way = 'from the path';
 		} elseif ( isset( $urltest['query'] ) && preg_match('#p=[0-9]{1,}#', $urltest['query'], $match) ) {
 			// the querystring defines the post_ID (?p=XXXX)
 			$blah = explode('=', $match[0]);
 			$post_ID = (int) $blah[1];
-			$way = 'from the querystring';
 		} elseif ( isset($urltest['fragment']) ) {
 			// an #anchor is there, it's either...
 			if ( intval($urltest['fragment']) ) {
 				// ...an integer #XXXX (simplest case)
 				$post_ID = (int) $urltest['fragment'];
-				$way = 'from the fragment (numeric)';
 			} elseif ( preg_match('/post-[0-9]+/',$urltest['fragment']) ) {
 				// ...a post id in the form 'post-###'
 				$post_ID = preg_replace('/[^0-9]+/', '', $urltest['fragment']);
-				$way = 'from the fragment (post-###)';
 			} elseif ( is_string($urltest['fragment']) ) {
 				// ...or a string #title, a little more complicated
 				$title = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9]/i', '.', $urltest['fragment']);
@@ -5736,7 +5732,6 @@ class wp_xmlrpc_server extends IXR_Server {
 					// returning unknown error '0' is better than die()ing
 			  		return $this->pingback_error( 0, '' );
 				}
-				$way = 'from the fragment (title)';
 			}
 		} else {
 			// TODO: Attempt to extract a post ID from the given URL
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index d6f4aeb5be..1190a8a485 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '4.1-alpha-30138';
+$wp_version = '4.1-alpha-30139';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.