A feature plugin to integrate Plugins & Themes automatic updates in WordPress Core.

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Jb Audras

Jeffrey Paul

Ronald Huereca

Andrew Ozz

Jake Spurlock

Paul Biron

Mark Uraine

Konstantinos Xenos

Ryan Fredlund

UPDATE: This feature plugin was merged in WordPress Core on August 11, 2020, with WordPress 5.6.
The purpose of this plugin is to prepare a future Plugins & Themes automatic updates feature.
Please note that the code of this plugin is not meant to land in WordPress Core “as it is”, its code will be completely reworked for core merge. This plugin is meant to discuss auto-updates principles and user interface.
In 2018, Matt Mullenweg posted 9 projects for Core to focus on in 2019. We didn’t ship as many as hoped, but we made a lot of progress. Plugins and Themes Automatic Updates were one of those 9 projects. This project is now milestoned to WordPress 5.5 and this feature plugin is here to help move towards this achievement.
For full details, see the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/02/26/feature-plugin-wp-auto-updates/" rel="nofollow ugc">Feature Plugin proposal published on Make/Core</a>.
Weekly meetings summaries:
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<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/05/12/auto-updates-feature-meeting-summary-may-12-2020/" rel="nofollow ugc">Auto-updates feature meeting summary: May 12, 2020</a></li>
<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/05/06/auto-updates-feature-meeting-summary-may-4-2020/" rel="nofollow ugc">Auto-updates feature meeting summary: May 4, 2020</a></li>
<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/05/02/merge-announcement-plugins-themes-auto-updates/" rel="nofollow ugc">Merge Announcement: Plugins & Themes Auto-Updates</a></li>
<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/05/01/auto-updates-feature-meeting-summary-april-28-2020/" rel="nofollow ugc">Auto-updates feature meeting summary: April 28, 2020</a></li>
<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/04/22/auto-updates-feature-meeting-summary-april-21-2020/" rel="nofollow ugc">Auto-updates feature meeting summary: April 21, 2020</a></li>
<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/04/15/auto-updates-feature-meeting-summary-april-14th-2020/" rel="nofollow ugc">Auto-updates feature meeting summary: April 14th, 2020</a></li>
<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/04/08/auto-updates-feature-meeting-summary-april-7th-2020/" rel="nofollow ugc">Auto-updates feature meeting summary: April 7th, 2020</a></li>
<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/03/18/auto-updates-feature-meeting-summary-march-17th-2020/" rel="nofollow ugc">Auto-updates feature meeting summary: March 17th, 2020</a></li>
<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/03/11/auto-updates-feature-meeting-summary-march-10th-2020-kick-off-meeting/" rel="nofollow ugc">Auto-updates feature meeting summary: March 10th, 2020 – Kick-off meeting</a></li>
</ul>
See also:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/12/06/update-9-projects-for-2019/" rel="nofollow ugc">Update on the 9 projects for 2019</a></li>
<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/50052" rel="nofollow ugc">Related Trac ticket for plugins & themes auto-updates core merge</a></li>
<li>Former Trac tickets for <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/48850" rel="nofollow ugc">plugins</a> & <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/48850" rel="nofollow ugc">themes</a> auto-updates</li>
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This project is currently driven by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/" rel="nofollow ugc">Jb Audras</a> & <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/pbiron/" rel="nofollow ugc">Paul Biron</a> and it’s being <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/wp-autoupdates" rel="nofollow ugc">developed on GitHub</a>.
Interested in contributing to this plugin? Feel free to join us in <code>#core-auto-updates</code> channel on Make WordPress Slack Team. We’ll host weekly meetings on Slack every Tuesdays at 17:00 UTC.

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