[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #52012: Bundle jQuery plugin temporarily to encourage adoption of auto-updates

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#52012: Bundle jQuery plugin temporarily to encourage adoption of auto-updates
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 Reporter:  carike              |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal              |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  External Libraries  |     Version:  5.5
 Severity:  normal              |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                      |     Focuses:  javascript
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Comment (by apedog):

 > this wasn't truly a breaking change
 WP ''did'' introduce a breaking change when it updated the jQuery version
 bundled with WP, and removed jquery-migrate. This is the very definition
 of a breaking change.

 > this was plugin and them authors becoming blind to their own issues
 because they didn't truly understand that jQuery Migrate was running
 Developers/authors are not the issue here. The issue is how ''users'' are
 affected. Specifically users that are not tech-savvy and users that do not
 have developers on their payroll.

 > I also do not agree with the assessment that 5.5 and 5.6 have had an
 increase in broken sites
 This is news to me. As I recall there was an uptick of 'broken'
 sites/tickets/support issues revolving around the jQuery upgrade upon 5.5
 release. Alleviated by the introduction of the jQuery Migrate Helper
 plugin.

 > I am not a fan of this idea. I don't think core should be bundling any
 plugins
 This might be a valid personal opinion/preference, but it should be
 weighed against WP's longstanding philosophy of backward-compatibility.
 The precedent of bundling plugins with WP exists. And in this case it can
 be bootstrapped to help with a problem that could affect 20% of users (I'm
 relying on @Clorith statistic of 80% not affected above).

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