The plugin system, introduced way back in MyBB 1.0, simplified the way modifications could be installed and uninstalled. However, if an administrator installed 10 different plugins, he/she would have to check each of the plugin’s websites to see if any required updating.

MyBB 1.4 will offer a centralized way of checking your plugins for an upgrade. Tikitiki talks about this new feature on his blog. Of course this will only work if the plugin author has submitted his plugin to MyBB Mods and has made the plugin compatible with the version checking system.

Will we be seeing an automatic plugin downloader soon? This seems one step closer to it

MyBB Games also has a comment about this new feature.