automatic theme and plugin updates slated for wordpress 5.5 – wordpress tavern

Today, Jean-Baptiste Audras announced WordPress Auto-updates feature plugin.   The project seeks to bring automatic plugin and theme updates to WordPress version 5.5.   WordPress Auto-updates plugin is available for beta testing in the directory.   The plugin is marked to work with sites running PHP 7.2 or later.   it's time for the platform to take the reins and make this feature available directly to all users.   Work toward bringing the feature into WordPress began in the plugin auto-updates and theme auto-updates Trac tickets.   WordPress contributors did lot of work on the two related tickets during WP 5.4 development cycle, Audras in the announcement..   One of the primary goals of the project is to create UI.   The project plans to set up email notifications for site administrators that will summarize any auto-updates that happen on the site.   There will also be hooks and PHP constants to allow plugin developers to take control of the update settings..   Read more