Opened 4 years ago
Last modified 3 years ago
#51695 new enhancement
Include Upgrade Notice in post-auto-update emails
Reported by: | dd32 | Owned by: | |
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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.
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.