Matt Biscay

Sky Changelog Notifier enhances WordPress automatic update notification emails by including the actual changelog for each updated plugin or theme. This keeps you informed about what changed in each update without having to visit the WordPress.org repository.
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Automatically fetches and includes changelogs in update notification emails</li>
<li>Works with both plugin and theme updates</li>
<li>Adds emoji indicators (✅🚀❌) to plugin details modal showing version status</li>
<li>Fetches from tagged versions for accuracy, with automatic fallback to trunk</li>
<li>Comprehensive caching for optimal performance</li>
<li>WP-CLI support for testing</li>
<li>Full compatibility with Easy Updates Manager (EUM) and other notification plugins</li>
<li>Locale-agnostic email insertion — works on any localized WordPress site</li>
</ul>
How It Works:
When WordPress automatically updates plugins or themes, this plugin:
<ol>
<li>Fetches the changelog from the plugin/theme’s readme.txt file</li>
<li>Extracts the specific version’s changelog</li>
<li>Appends it to the update notification email</li>
<li>Caches results for 1 hour to improve performance</li>
</ol>
Plugin Modal Enhancement:
When viewing plugin details in the WordPress admin, you’ll see: 
* ✅ Green checkmark – Your version matches the latest 
* 🚀 Rocket – You’re ahead (development version) 
* ❌ Red X – Update available
Compatibility:
Works seamlessly with: 
* Easy Updates Manager 
* Easy Theme and Plugin Upgrades 
* Other update management plugins 
* Uses high priority (999) on standard WordPress filters 
* Hooks into <code>automatic_updates_complete</code> for EUM and similar plugins that bypass WordPress email filters 
* Locale-agnostic insertion using structural markers instead of translatable strings
<h3>Development</h3>
Development happens on GitHub: https://github.com/skyminds/sky-changelog-notifier

Sky Changelog Notifier

Adds changelogs to WordPress automatic update notification emails for plugins and themes.

Andy Fragen

Ari Stathopoulos

Colin Stewart

Paul Biron

This is a feature plugin is for testing Rollback Auto-Update, aka Rollback part 3. This feature only protects plugins during the auto-update process.
As part of the normal Rollback process, the currently installed version of the plugin is moved to <code>wp-content/upgrade-temp-backup/plugins</code>. An active plugin is checked to ensure it doesn’t cause a PHP fatal error when visiting the site. An inactive plugin is not checked because it cannot cause your site to white screen.
Rollback parts 1 was merged into WordPress 6.2 as the <code>move_dir()</code>. Rollback part 2 was merged into WordPress 6.3 and protects the manual update process of plugins and themes.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/53578" rel="nofollow ugc">r53578</a></li>
<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/55204" rel="nofollow ugc">r55204</a></li>
<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/55219" rel="nofollow ugc">r55219</a></li>
<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/55220" rel="nofollow ugc">r55220</a></li>
<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/55223" rel="nofollow ugc">r55223</a></li>
<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/55720" rel="nofollow ugc">r55720</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Testing</h3>
<ul>
<li>Requires WordPress 6.3</li>
<li>This only works on auto-updates.</li>
<li>Run the following commands from the terminal. You might need to run the command several times to get it started: 
wp cron event run wp_version_check</li>
<li>When updating a plugin, you should be able to see the old plugin in the <code>wp-content/upgrade-temp-backup/plugins/PLUGINNAME</code> folder. The same should apply for themes. Since updates sometimes run fast and we may miss the folder creation during testing, you can simulate an update failure to demonstrate.</li>
<li>When a plugin auto-update fails, the previous version should be restored. To test that, change the version of a plugin to a previous number, run the update, and on fail the previous version (the one where you changed the version number) should still be installed on the site. To simulate an update failure and confirm this works, use the built-in Simulate failure link. Just activate/deactivate from the <code>plugins.php</code> page action link. This link will only be present if the plugin has an update pending.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Reporting</h3>
Please submit <a href="https://github.com/afragen/rollback-update-failure/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">issues</a> and <a href="https://github.com/afragen/rollback-update-failure/pulls" rel="nofollow ugc">PRs</a> to GitHub.
Logo from a meme generator. <a href="http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Original artwork</a> by Allie Brosh.

Rollback Auto Update

A feature plugin now only for testing Rollback Auto Update, aka Rollback part 3. Manual Rollback of update failures has been committed in WordPress 6.

Sky Changelog Notifier vs Rollback Auto Update