Unclear definition of required plugin headers

[casiepa]

According to the documentation on ​https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-basics/header-requirements/#header-fields only the 'Plugin name' header is required.
But the documentation of the parsing of the plugin at ​https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php seems to indicate that e.g. also version would be required: 'Version: Must be set in the plugin for WordPress 2.3+'

Can the documentation be updated on what are the really required fields for the plugin header?

[Otto42]

The plugin version is not a required field. Plugins will activate and run just fine without it.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to casiepa:

But the documentation of the parsing of the plugin at ​https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php seems to indicate that e.g. also version would be required: 'Version: Must be set in the plugin for WordPress 2.3+'

Thanks for bringing this up, I've updated the get_plugin_data() description in ​[WP45916].

[Otto42]

Changing to fixed as the change to the core docs makes more sense.