Hi
I really would like to have Spartacus perform its upgradable tasks when fetching the xml, half or once a day.
This would improve the backend management and we could highlight these plugins on /serendipity_admin.php?serendipity[adminModule]=plugins (Plugin Startpage) and this also could help to check by type and upgradable(true) to pronounce 'none', 'event', 'sidebar', 'theme', 'check current status', (maybe even later diff) upgrade buttons.
For now these buttons just pop up all the time, as only checked by get_config('enable_plugins').
I need this for the Dashboard.

I'll come back, as I dimly remember there is some more for 1.7...