If the user is not able to login after a Magento version update, you have most likely overwritten the login.phtml template in your local theme. To fix that problem, open \customer\form\login.phtml in your local theme and add the following code right below the form tags:
getBlockHtml('formkey'); ?>
User not able to login after version update
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