I've heard
that there is some automatic handling for this, so that
editors for example see the latest version of Article after saving it.
But apparently there is no such thing, or at least it doesn't kick in
automatically.
We had that issue at one point, I am not sure how it get fixed though.
Maybe we fetch the article from the master database to make sure it is
up to date after the user hit the save button.
You mean the recent bug 37225 ? (stale data problems have happened
several times in the past). It should have fixed with