diff --git a/wp-admin/update-core.php b/wp-admin/update-core.php
index c5768b9c24..1bd6f6945a 100644
--- a/wp-admin/update-core.php
+++ b/wp-admin/update-core.php
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ function list_core_update( $update ) {
 	global $wp_local_package, $wpdb;
 	static $first_pass = true;
 
+	// Don't show auto-updates in the updates page
+	if ( isset( $update->response ) && 'autoupdate' == $update->response )
+		return;
+
 	$version_string = ('en_US' == $update->locale && 'en_US' == get_locale() ) ?
 			$update->current : sprintf("%s&ndash;<strong>%s</strong>", $update->current, $update->locale);
 	$current = false;
diff --git a/wp-includes/update.php b/wp-includes/update.php
index 61d163aaf4..05069e5c6f 100644
--- a/wp-includes/update.php
+++ b/wp-includes/update.php
@@ -75,7 +75,10 @@ function wp_version_check() {
 		'multisite_enabled' => $multisite_enabled
 	);
 
-	$url = 'http://api.wordpress.org/core/version-check/1.6/?' . http_build_query( $query, null, '&' );
+	$url = 'http://api.wordpress.org/core/version-check/1.7/?' . http_build_query( $query, null, '&' );
+
+	if ( wp_http_supports( 'ssl' ) )
+		$url = set_url_scheme( $url, 'https' );
 
 	$options = array(
 		'timeout' => ( ( defined('DOING_CRON') && DOING_CRON ) ? 30 : 3 ),
@@ -92,7 +95,7 @@ function wp_version_check() {
 		return false;
 
 	$body = trim( wp_remote_retrieve_body( $response ) );
-	$body = maybe_unserialize( $body );
+	$body = json_decode( $body, true );
 
 	if ( ! is_array( $body ) || ! isset( $body['offers'] ) )
 		return false;
@@ -110,7 +113,7 @@ function wp_version_check() {
 				$offer[ $offer_key ] = esc_html( $value );
 		}
 		$offer = (object) array_intersect_key( $offer, array_fill_keys( array( 'response', 'download', 'locale',
-			'packages', 'current', 'php_version', 'mysql_version', 'new_bundled', 'partial_version' ), '' ) );
+			'packages', 'current', 'version', 'php_version', 'mysql_version', 'new_bundled', 'partial_version' ), '' ) );
 	}
 
 	$updates = new stdClass();