From f4faaa53c7aa3a5ad4ba9dcd6dc5df711c81d114 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Drew Jaynes <info@drewapicture.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 22:40:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Docs: Improve the usefulness of docs for
 `wp_generate_password()` by noting the use of wp_rand() vs `rand()` or
 `mt_rand()`.

Props webdevmattcrom.
Fixes #42782.

Built from https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@42373


git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@42202 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-includes/pluggable.php | 5 ++++-
 wp-includes/version.php   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/pluggable.php b/wp-includes/pluggable.php
index 28c3e43a46..17e3fed1cb 100644
--- a/wp-includes/pluggable.php
+++ b/wp-includes/pluggable.php
@@ -2312,6 +2312,9 @@ if ( ! function_exists( 'wp_generate_password' ) ) :
 	/**
 	 * Generates a random password drawn from the defined set of characters.
 	 *
+	 * Uses wp_rand() is used to create passwords with far less predictability
+	 * than similar native PHP functions like `rand()` or `mt_rand()`.
+	 *
 	 * @since 2.5.0
 	 *
 	 * @param int  $length              Optional. The length of password to generate. Default 12.
@@ -2348,7 +2351,7 @@ endif;
 
 if ( ! function_exists( 'wp_rand' ) ) :
 	/**
-	 * Generates a random number
+	 * Generates a random number.
 	 *
 	 * @since 2.6.2
 	 * @since 4.4.0 Uses PHP7 random_int() or the random_compat library if available.
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index 1bcb13f6ea..a504442c38 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '5.0-alpha-42368';
+$wp_version = '5.0-alpha-42373';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.