wp-includes/functions.php:7907Generates a random UUID (version 4).
stringfunction wp_generate_uuid4() { return sprintf( '%04x%04x-%04x-%04x-%04x-%04x%04x%04x', mt_rand( 0, 0xffff ), mt_rand( 0, 0xffff ), mt_rand( 0, 0xffff ), mt_rand( 0, 0x0fff ) | 0x4000, mt_rand( 0, 0x3fff ) | 0x8000, mt_rand( 0, 0xffff ), mt_rand( 0, 0xffff ), mt_rand( 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.