[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #22704: Automatic Core Updates

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#22704: Automatic Core Updates
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 Reporter:  pento            |       Owner:  pento
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Upgrade/Install  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  dev-feedback     |
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Comment (by bpetty):

 Replying to [comment:2 nacin]:
 > Though I applaud your initiative and can't wait to see you build it.

 He has: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/automatic-updater/

 At Bluehost, we've been researching this for a few months now (and yes, we
 have tested your plugin a bit with a lot of success - but it certainly has
 it's limitations right now).

 Anyway, our biggest problem has very little to do with how automatic
 upgrades are implemented (whether it's in core, or in an mu-plugin we
 provide ourselves). It's that eventually, all installed plugins and themes
 will break themselves, core, or both upon a major upgrade of WordPress
 core in an undetectable way; just backwards incompatibility issues. I've
 run the statistics as best as I can without actually using our customers
 as test subjects, and I've even [http://ibaku.wordpress.com/2012/11/08
 /wordpress-plugin-and-theme-api-manifest-versioning written a proposal]
 for one possible solution to this (which also contains some of those
 stats).

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