Request: use options --major and --minor with core update

[vovodroid]

Hi!

It would be very nice to have those options working also with core update command, i.e. to choose whether to update only to latest minor version or to latest major. I think --minor will be good for auto updates.

Thanks.

[danielbachhuber]

Seems like a reasonable request — thanks for submitting the issue.

[vovodroid]

Actually the same can be applied to plugins and themes (though their versioning may be less strict).

[szepeviktor]

Even core does not seem to have semver:
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/ca542b5d18778f273d18b590fe9fc2cd97ccb28d/wp-includes/version.php#L7

[vovodroid]

My WP copy has version "4.2.2"

[dfisek]

This would be a great feature.

A general security practice is "not allowing the application server user to write to the application source code". This also means breaking the auto update functionality of Wordpress itself.

If wp-cli had this feature, we could emulate the automatic update functionality of Wordpress by running wp core update --minor periodically from cron.

[nicomollet]

Interested in this feature too.