Provide plugin and theme versions informations in auto-updates email notifications

[audrasjb]

It would be useful to provide version informations in the themes and plugins auto-updates email notification.

Probably something like:

The following plugins were successfully updated:

• Hello Dolly (from 1.7 to 1.7.1)

[audrasjb]

For reference, see ​https://github.com/WordPress/wp-autoupdates/issues/88 and #50268

[pbiron]

Quoting from the referenced GitHub issue:

Including the version updated FROM would help admins manually rollback if they later discover the update causes problems on the site (it's pretty likely they won't remember what version they were running before the update).

[stuffradio]

Further to discussions on #50268,

I agree it would sound more professional to change the word "Howdy", to "Hello".

So instead of something like

<?php
                        $body[]  = sprintf(
                                /* translators: %s: Home URL. */
                                __( 'Howdy! Failures occurred when attempting to update plugins/themes on your site at %s.', 'wp-autoupdates' ),
                                home_url()
                        );

We would instead have something like

<?php
                        $body[]  = sprintf(
                                /* translators: %s: Home URL. */
                                __( 'Hello,', 'wp-autoupdates' )
                        );
                        $body[] = "\n";
                        $body[]  = sprintf(
                                /* translators: %s: Home URL. */
                                __( 'Failures occurred when attempting to update plugins/themes on your site at %s.', 'wp-autoupdates' ),
                                home_url()
                        );

@audrasjb

[audrasjb]

@stuffradio thanks!
This is not in this ticket's scope, because there is a bunch of other use of "Howdy!" in WordPress. This should be handled in a dedicated ticket.
For now, let's keep it as it for consistency with other email notification in WordPress core :)

[davidbaumwald]

With 5.5 Beta 1 releasing tomorrow ans this still needing a refresh and a review, this is being moved to Future Release. If any maintainer or committer feels the remainder of this ticket can be resolved in time, or wishes to assume ownership during a specific cycle, feel free to update the milestone accordingly.

[audrasjb]

Upgrade/install: Add version information to auto-updates email notifications

[audrasjb]

Email notification received during tests

[pbiron]

patch looks good to me.

[desrosj]

The original suggestion was to include the version being updated from and the new version.

Was there a discussion around this that lead to the current patch without the previous version?

[pbiron]

Yes, that was the original suggestion. However, by the time the email is generated, the version updated FROM is not available.

So, in the weekly meeting on Jun 30, ​it was decided to add TO for 5.5, and work on FROM in 5.6.

[desrosj]

Great. Thanks, @pbiron! I just wanted to make sure I had that context.

[desrosj]

In 48517:

Administration: Include the new plugin and theme versions in email notifications.

This helps administrators keep track of which versions of plugins and themes are running on their site when auto-updates occur.

Props audrasjb, pbiron.
Fixes #50350.

[pbiron]

@desrosj should this ticket be opened up again for adding the FROM version in 5.6? Or should we create another ticket for that?

[desrosj]

@pbiron New ticket please! That way this one can stay in the milestone for future WordPress archaeologists!

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 48519:

I18N: Mark the strings with plugin and theme names in email notifications for translation.

Follow-up to [48517].

See #50350.