In reply to Brent Norris.

I agree with Brent about the versioning.

It isn't practical to update sites (when one is managing a large number, say more than 10) every time a plugin update notification is received.

And experience has taught me it's asking for trouble just to run plugin updates on live sites ... plugin updates sometimes break the site, mess up the display or conflict with other plugins.

The security plugins don't help. Wordfence, for example, flags EVERY plugin update as 'critical', when patently they're not.

I'd also like to take issue with plugin writers who don't include version numbers in the file names - I know I can add this myself when I download them (which I do to short-circuit some of the time spent searching through the repository), but it's a pain and (I think) unprofessional on the part of the plugin writer. This is actually worse on premium plugins.