[wp-hackers] track activity of user engagement in plugins

[Otto]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Doug Stewart <zamoose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
> > Core, theme, and plugin update checks are not "phoning home". No
> statistics
> > or usage information is sent back to WordPress.org. In fact, it's
> > retrieving plugin/theme information from the site, not sending it back.
> >
>
> When did this change? It used to send version information + PHP &
> MySQL info at the very least.
>

Yes, that information is sent as part of the core update check. If you have
an older version of PHP or MySQL, for example, then you'll get a different
response from the core update check if the new version of WP doesn't
support your versions. Like in 3.0, when we started requiring PHP 5.

-Otto