Automated Updates - Version to update to
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Rune Rasmussen
The «Automated Update» feature should be improved by adding options for which versions to install to. Preferably both globally and per plugin (per plugin as an override for global), and by following SemVer (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH).
T.ex. I wouldn't recommend anyone to run automated update from WooCommerce 9.6.x to 9.7.x, and especially not from 9.9.x to 10.0.x - patch updates within a minor version are normally fine though (e.g. 10.3.0 to 10.3.1 etc).
To ensure stability for the sites today, we can not add automate updates for WooCommerce and other complex plugins who normally requires reviews and testing for major and minor versions before updating live sites, as WPU are missing this basic option for witch versions to update to.
In my opinion any plugin should normally be manually reviewed before running updates for major or minor versions, only patch version should be automated. Preferably also with a minimum age of three days to allow bugs to be found and corrected... ;)
Aurelio Volle
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Hello Rune Rasmussen ,
Thank you very much for the feedback and for sharing this idea. We would really like to support this, but in practice it’s difficult to make it work reliably today. Only a small number of plugin editors consistently follow semantic versioning (major / minor / patch), which makes it hard for us to build something accurate and dependable on top of it.
Hopefully, broader versioning standards will be adopted across the WordPress ecosystem over time, and we’ll be able to revisit this. For now, though, it’s not something we can support in a way we’d be comfortable shipping.