I think this fantastic and yet scares the hell out of me.

I'll be turning this off for client sites - it is incredulous there is so much support for auto-updates, I can only surmise that auto-updates are supported by folks that don't use change-management ...

Certainly every release I've seen has required plugin / theme updates to support core changes. And who can forget the fiasco with WordPress 3.2?

The 'WordPress Update Blew Up My Website' posts will be along shortly...