WP 3.7 Automatic Updates

[meloniq]

Digg on how it behaves with our products... Are they automatically updated to next minor version if available?! If so, what potential problems it may cause?! If not, how to enable it for our products?!

[meloniq]

By default automatic updates for plugins and themes are disabled.

Can be enabled by adding filters:

add_filter( 'auto_update_plugin', '__return_true' );
add_filter( 'auto_update_theme', '__return_true' );

When auto updates enabled, our themes/plugins being omitted, and not updated.

Also, during auto update, our themes/plugins can be replaced to wrong one (with that same name) from WP.org

[cowgill]

I think this is backwards now. Auto updates are enabled by default and you can disable them if you like.

So if a customer disables plugin auto updates, it should also disable our plugin updates.

[meloniq]

@cowgill per my comment above, it seems like our 'Updater' plugin not being loaded during the autoupdate process, and as result:

• our themes/plugins being omitted, and not updated
• our themes/plugins NOT being protected, and can be replaced to wrong one (with that same name) from WP.org

[cowgill]

@meloniq okay, can you provide a patch to enable this?

[meloniq]

I did a quick look at the ET Updater, and they seems to be hooking into pre_set_site_transient_update_themes and pre_set_site_transient_update_plugins filters to check for updates, and into site_transient_update_themes and site_transient_update_plugins to populate updates check response...

I'll make some tests soon, and look closer on how it works and how we can handle it.