[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #5117: WordPress (plugin) updates do not warn about unknown plugins

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#5117: WordPress (plugin) updates do not warn about unknown plugins
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 Reporter:  Quandary  |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect    |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  high      |   Milestone:  2.5      
Component:  General   |     Version:           
 Severity:  normal    |    Keywords:           
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 The WordPress plugin update system does not notify the user if it could
 not find updates for a subset of plugins. That is, if the user has
 installed plugins not hosted with WordPress, they are not notified that
 new versions were ''not'' actually checked for. This can lead the user to
 believe that all of their plugins are up-to-date when they are not.

 Fixing this will require both the server-side and the client to be
 updated. The WordPress update API will need to return data on which
 plugins it does not recognize as being hosted, and the WordPress
 installation will need to render that information so that the user
 understands which of his/her plugins are ''not'' automatically checked.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5117>
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