Site Health => Background Updates

[jamesmorrison]

The Site Health => Background Updates shows a "critial security issue", because I have disabled background updates. The output also notes that WordPress is version controlled via Git.

This is not a "critical security issue" - this is exactly how I have set up the site, and treats a version controlled instance as a problem. The same checks also noted that the site is running WP 5.5 (released yesterday).

Where a site is noted as being version controlled, it's a reasonable expectation that the people operating it have done so intentionally, and don't need a "critical security issue" alert which it clearly isn't.

Proposal: where a site is version controlled, by all means note that this is detected but make this "info" level, not "critical security issue".

[TimothyBlynJacobs]

Previously #47982.

[Clorith]

Hiya,

Thank you for the report, and welcome to the WordPress trac!

I've marked this as a duplicate of #47982, which was implemented in r46281 and changed the state of these to recommendations, and not critical issues when a system is version controlled.