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Opened 4 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

#51695 new enhancement

Include Upgrade Notice in post-auto-update emails

Reported by: dd32's profile dd32 Owned by:
Milestone: Future Release Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 5.5
Component: Upgrade/Install Keywords: needs-patch
Focuses: Cc:

Description

When a plugin update is released, an optional Upgrade Notice is visible on the Updates page explaining anything important about a plugin release.
In the current age of automatic updates for plugins, those messages are not seen.

I'm proposing that the Upgrade Notice field should be included in the post-auto-update emails related to the plugin - if the author has set the field that is.

This would also be of benefit where a plugin receives a pushed force fix from WordPress.org for a security reason, a recent example was where someone who had not opt'd in to plugin auto updates received the update and was confused/concerned there was a bug.
In that case, had the upgrade notice been included the end-user would've seen a pretty generic, but helpful text of Version %s contains security fixes and is highly recommended for all users.

Change History (5)

#1 @johnbillion
4 years ago

  • Version set to 5.5

This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #core by noisysocks. View the logs.


4 years ago

#3 @kirasong
4 years ago

  • Keywords needs-patch added
  • Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to Future Release

We saw this during triage today, and leaving feedback from there:

Folks present thought it was a good idea to add this.
Tossing into Future, and marking that it needs a patch.

#4 @stuffradio
4 years ago

I'm thinking of working on this one.

#5 @SergeyBiryukov
3 years ago

Related/duplicate: #53337

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