[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #43492: Core Telemetry and Updates
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#43492: Core Telemetry and Updates
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Reporter: xkon | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Awaiting Review
Component: Upgrade/Install | Version:
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: gdpr 2nd-opinion | Focuses:
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Comment (by dd32):
Strictly speaking, of the values reported to WordPress.org as part of the
core update check (other than the WordPress version), these are required
for a proper response:
- PHP Version - So as to not offer WordPress 9.0 which requires PHP 7.0
to WordPress 7.5 users who are only running PHP 5.6.
- MySQL Version - Same as above, Last time we increased PHP 4.3 -> PHP
5.2 min, we also bumped MySQL from 4.1 to 5.0
- local_package - Used to offer locale-based installs updates which
include their locales customisations
I note that https://wordpress.org/plugins/update-privacy removes these
fields, and core continues to work, it gracefully downgrades and just
returns all updates & ignores locale-updates.
As a question was asked about the Active Installs numbers, the main thing
relevant to the discussion there is that the Site URL from the WordPress
user-agent is used (along with other static information) to determine a
unique ID for stats purposes, and is used consistently over
core/plugins/themes API's to generate the `active_installs` numbers for
plugins/themes as well as using the other details sent with core update
requests to ultimately generate the stats visible on
https://wordpress.org/about/stats/
The aggregated statistics part is covered by
[https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/ the WordPress.org Privacy Policy].
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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/43492#comment:9>
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