Sucuri presence removes Updates (#) display

Short answer: No.

Long answer: I will talk with my coworkers in the development team to see if they agree with your suggestion. I personally think that WordPress does a better job verifying if a plugin or theme has an update available than any other 3rd-party plugin, but if my coworkers find it useful then I will re-add the code that was powering that feature.

Keep an eye on the new versions coming in the next months, if we decide to re-add that feature we will mention it on the ChangeLog.

Frankly, I’d prefer WordPress’ built-in ability to display the need for updates, and for that display to work no matter what plugin or service is active.

My post wasn’t meant to be a suggestion; it’s a simple question:
Is it Sucuri blocking that display? If so, what can I do (besides uninstalling Sucuri) to get the display back in place?

I misunderstood your question. I remember that issue, but it was happening only in the (old) premium plugin because the values of the transient variables (stored in the options table) were being overwritten by our plugin. That was fixed when the code was migrated to the free (community) plugin, because now I use the WordPress update system, so it should not be affecting other plugins.

I will mark this as not resolved again, will investigate and if I find something relevant then I will notify you.

Thank you – I’ll look forward to news of its resolution ??

I fixed this bug with the latest version of the plugin 1.7.3. I was still storing some of the settings in the main database table instead of using the sub-tables generated after the initialization of the MultiSite project.