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Re:What's new in WordPress 3.7, "Basie" by 8ig8 on Thursday October 24, 2013 @09:56PM (#6609322)
I'm fine with it, but i understand the concern. It sounds pretty easy to disable the feature...

> The simplest way to disable it is to add define( 'AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED', true ); to your wp-config.php file

Re:What's new in WordPress 3.7, "Basie" by poissonpie on Friday October 25, 2013 @04:29AM (#6610407)
Urg. It should be off by default in my opinion. You should have to explicitly turn it on.
Re:What's new in WordPress 3.7, "Basie" by zeroDivisible on Friday October 25, 2013 @04:43AM (#6610437)
I think it should ask the user, explicitly giving him information about what's wrong with both approaches.