Good point, I presume we should respect that setting in the Marketplace. I will see what is possible probably today.

FYI: So far the workflow would be to disable the Marketplace for this by setting [General]enable_marketplace=0.
We will soon introduce a new setting multi_server_environment = 0/1 which then will disable some updates as well. More about this will follow soon.

hmm I'm not that happy making it global
(like decribed in ticket details but not in headline)

Update of data like geo-IP, Spam-protection ... should be handeled separately.

What do you think of making 2 switches,

• one for all kind of software (Piwik itself and all plugins) and
• one for all kind of data (geio, spam etc)

the reason:

• software could introduce new bugs or incompatibilities which one may want check manually
• simple data updates shouldn't break anything but only make things better

btw All update checks could use the same messaging sytem "there is a new update available"

I won't make it global for geoi and spam for now :)

good to hear!

Notes:

• enable_auto_update - is currently wrongly implemented. it disables the "Check for new versions" when it should only disable the "Auto update" feature
• we would need a new setting enable_check_latest which would let users disable the actual check for latest version (for core and for marketplace plugins).

Actually, I will remove this issue out of the current milestone again. The setting enable_auto_update should actually disable all automatic updates, or at least core and plugins.

What I will do as part of another feature is to show a "download plugin" button instead of an "update plugin" or "install plugin" if enable_auto_update is disabled. However, it will still ping the Marketplace so far. For this we will need another setting like suggested enable_check_latest or enable_outgoing_requests_to_piwik or something.

For this we will need another setting like suggested enable_check_latest or enable_outgoing_requests_to_piwik or something.

FYI enable_outgoing_requests_to_piwik is covered in #6324

I added a list of outgoing connections to #6324