[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #43492: Core Telemetry and Updates

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#43492: Core Telemetry and Updates
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 Reporter:  xkon              |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Upgrade/Install   |     Version:
 Severity:  normal            |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  gdpr 2nd-opinion  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by dd32):

 Strictly speaking, of the values reported to WordPress.org as part of the
 core update check (other than the WordPress version), these are required
 for a proper response:
  - PHP Version - So as to not offer WordPress 9.0 which requires PHP 7.0
 to WordPress 7.5 users who are only running PHP 5.6.
  - MySQL Version - Same as above, Last time we increased PHP 4.3 -> PHP
 5.2 min, we also bumped MySQL from 4.1 to 5.0
  - local_package - Used to offer locale-based installs updates which
 include their locales customisations
 I note that https://wordpress.org/plugins/update-privacy removes these
 fields, and core continues to work, it gracefully downgrades and just
 returns all updates & ignores locale-updates.

 As a question was asked about the Active Installs numbers, the main thing
 relevant to the discussion there is that the Site URL from the WordPress
 user-agent is used (along with other static information) to determine a
 unique ID for stats purposes, and is used consistently over
 core/plugins/themes API's to generate the `active_installs` numbers for
 plugins/themes as well as using the other details sent with core update
 requests to ultimately generate the stats visible on
 https://wordpress.org/about/stats/
 The aggregated statistics part is covered by
 [https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/ the WordPress.org Privacy Policy].

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