wp-includes/functions.php:8087Generates a random UUID (version 4).
stringfunction wp_generate_uuid4() { static $backup_randomizer = false; $randomizer = function_exists( 'wp_rand' ) ? 'wp_rand' : $backup_randomizer; if ( false === $randomizer ) { try { random_int( 0, 15705 ); $backup_randomizer = 'random_int'; } catch ( Exception $e ) { $backup_randomizer = 'mt_rand'; } $randomizer = $backup_randomizer; } return sprintf( '%04x%04x-%04x-%04x-%04x-%04x%04x%04x', $randomizer( 0, 0xffff ), $randomizer( 0, 0xffff ), $randomizer( 0, 0xffff ), $randomizer( 0, 0x0fff ) | 0x4000, $randomizer( 0, 0x3fff ) | 0x8000, $randomizer( 0, 0xffff ), $randomizer( 0, 0xffff ), $randomizer( 0, 0xffff ) );}Introduced in 4.7.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
src/wp-includes/functions.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.