Closed (won't fix)
Project:
Drupal core
Version:
11.x-dev
Component:
update.module
Priority:
Normal
Category:
Feature request
Assigned:
Unassigned
Reporter:
Created:
21 Mar 2007 at 23:29 UTC
Updated:
5 May 2025 at 15:47 UTC
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Comment #1
dwwdo you mean an RSS feed generated by this module for specific sites that are out of date, or do you mean an RSS feed of new release nodes directly from drupal.org? if you're talking about the later, see http://drupal.org/node/94138. if you're talking about the former, seems kind of scary to make an RSS feed available for when your site is out of date, no? ;) i guess it'd have to be a feed that requires authentication and all of that. sounds like kind of a hassle. personally, seems like it be a lot easier to just do the email notification stuff folks are talking about in http://drupal.org/node/124715.
can you please clarify exactly what you have in mind?
thanks,
-derek
Comment #2
gordon commentedThe RSS feed that I am suggesting would be a list of all the modules that are out of date on a site.
This way you would get notified when a module on a site is out of date.
Comment #3
mfer commented+1 I would love to have this feature, too.
How would security be handled on this feed? I don't want to broadcast to the world what out of date and security holes I have in my site. Like many, i don't update immediately all the time. Any thoughts?
I was thinking 2 possibilities. One would be the feed being password protected. While that's great it won't work in some feed readers. Or, having something like /admin/log/updatestatus/feed/somefeedkey.
In any case I think the feed should be optional and maybe configurable to which choice of the two above. Oh, and it would be nice to track subscriptions on this feed.
Comment #4
gordon commentedI see it working based upon the user security now, and using something like httpauth http://drupal.org/project/httpauth to provide access to secured feeds
Comment #5
merlinofchaos commentedHmm. An RSS feed *would* make for a convenient way to see the status of several sites at once. I'll consider patches. Access to the RSS feed will be the same as access to the admin page, but adding httpauth module will help people out.
Comment #6
dwwI'm not adding new features to D5 update_status in contrib. The next best chance to see this feature is in D7 core, if someone wants to work on it before the code freeze...
Comment #7
dave reidBumping to 8.x
Comment #8
brianV commented+1 on this. However, we would need some kind of 'external' hash that maps to a user account so that access to this feed could be managed on a per-user basis.
Maybe hash the password hash, and store it as an 'external hash in the user table? Then, given a url like node/reports/updates/feed/, you could fetch the related user account based on the external hash, check if the user has the appropriate permission to view the hash, and return a feed.
Would appreciate any further feedback / input.
Comment #21
smustgrave commentedWonder if this is still a valid request for D10? Know you can receive emails about outdated modules
Comment #23
quietone commentedThere hasn't been a response in the past two years or so to indicate that the community is interested in this.
The proposal doesn't met the Criteria for evaluating proposed changes. In this case, there is not demonstrated demand and support for the change.
If there is interest in this re-open the issue and add a comment. Or open a new issue and reference this one.
Comment #24
dwwYeah, I don’t think we’re ever going to add this. 😅
Comment #25
dwwMore accurate status