Automatic_updates

This is a draft design document to plan an implementation for automatic updates to phpMyAdmin.

Target version: A target version has not yet been determined.

Objective: It would be helpful for users if phpMyAdmin were able to automatically update itself when a new version is available.

See also https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/12608 and https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/6155

Potential pitfalls or difficulties:

• Shared hosting situations or shared installations
• Verifying the downloaded file
• Will require access to the server (for instance, WordPress requires clear FTP for similar functionality)
• We must preserve a user's config.inc.php
• If we do the install in-place, how do we roll back from failure
• How do we deal with permission issues