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Advanced Automatic Updates · Version history

Advanced Automatic Updates changelog and version history

Latest version
1.0.2
Jun 4, 2021 (5 years ago)
Releases
26
since 2012
In the last year
0
Tested up to
WordPress 5.0.31

Releases each year

  • 201219 releases
  • 20136 releases
  • 20211 release

20211 release

  1. Advanced Automatic Updates 1.0.2Latest

    • ADDED: Strictly disallow activation on versions of WordPress earlier than 3.7
    • CHANGED: Update filter name for redirecting debug emails (only available in WordPress 3.8+)

20136 releases

  1. Advanced Automatic Updates 1.0.1

    • CHANGED: Fresh installs now disable Major updates by default, to match Core behaviour
    • UPDATED: German (de_DE) translation. Props Alexander Pfabel
    • UPDATED: Japanese (日本語) (ja) translation. Props Tai
    • UPDATED: Italian (it_IT) translation. Props Stefano Giolo
    • UPDATED: Dutch (nl_NL) translation.
    • FIXED: Fresh installs had Minor updates disabled

  2. Advanced Automatic Updates 1.0

    • With the release of WordPress 3.7, Automatic Updater is now know as Advanced Automatic Updates!
    • ADDED: Options to enable Major and Minor Core updates
    • ADDED: Warning in wp-admin when AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED is set
    • ADDED: Turkish (tr_TR) translation. Props Tufan Tunç
    • CHANGED: Debug Email option now allows enabling only for dev upgrades (default)
    • UPDATED: Language POT file
    • FIXED: PHP notice in PHP 5.4+ with WP_DEBUG enabled

  3. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.9.1

    • UPDATED: Language POT file
    • UPDATED: German (de_DE) translation. Props Alexander Pfabel
    • UPDATED: Dutch (nl_NL) translation.
    • FIXED: If the svn up output was empty, don’t send an update email
    • FIXED: Removed pass-by-reference, it’s too old school for @wonderboymusic
    • FIXED: The settings link was incorrect in Multisite

  4. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.9

    • ADDED: Warning when Better WP Security is hiding update info
    • ADDED: Warning when the user can’t update directly, but hasn’t defined S/FTP login details
    • ADDED: AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED wp-config option, for forcing updates to never happen
    • ADDED: Sanity check to make sure the plugin isn’t accessed directly
    • CHANGED: For nightly build upgrade notification emails, include the build numbers
    • UPDATED: Tested up to WordPress 3.6
    • FIXED: Don’t send a notification email if the core upgrade didn’t change versions (ie, a nightly build with no changes)
    • FIXED: Settings page CSS wasn’t loading if the plugin was installed in a symlink directory
    • FIXED: Themes and plugins in non-writeable directories weren’t being highlighted correctly on the settings page
    • FIXED: Core upgrade retry emails were not showing the correct retry limit
    • FIXED: Nightly core upgrades can sometimes repeat more than once every 24 hours

  5. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.8.5

    • FIXED: Disable email notifications option was being set, but not showing up as set
    • FIXED: Only write to the options table when options have actually change
    • FIXED: Funky email layout if svn up’ing multiple things in one go
    • FIXED: Possible PHP error caused by including some core class definitions multiple times

  6. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.8.4

    • ADDED: A link to the SVN log browser for Core, when it updates
    • ADDED: Japanese (日本語) (ja) translation. Props Tai
    • UPDATED: Norwegian Bokmål (nb_NO) translation. Props Bjørn Johansen

201219 releases

  1. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.8.3

    • FIXED: Bug preventing normal WordPress Core updates from occurring
    • FIXED: Theme and Plugin updates not properly skipping those marked for SVN updates

  2. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.8.2

    • FIXED: SVN updates of WordPress core were not being triggered
    • FIXED: Particularly large SVN updates could cause notification email corruption
    • UPDATED: Dutch (nl_NL) translation.
    • UPDATED: German (de_DE) translation. Props Alexander Pfabel

  3. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.8.1

    • UPDATED: Language POT file
    • FIXED: Some unnecessary characters appearing in Admin when SVN isn’t being used
    • FIXED: Sanity checking of normal updates marked for SVN updates

  4. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.8

    • ADDED: SVN support for plugins and themes
    • ADDED: Retry limits, so broken updates won’t keep trying to install
    • ADDED: Option to only receive SVN update emails if something went wrong
    • FIXED: Some HTML tags in debug messages were being incorrectly stripped
    • FIXED: Don’t automatically enable Core updates on installs that seem to be coming from a repo

  5. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.7.2

    • ADDED: WordPress MultiSite support
    • UPDATED: German (de_DE) translation. Props Alexander Pfabel
    • FIXED: Now works properly if installed in a symlink directory

  6. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.7.1

    • UPDATED: Italian (it_IT) translation. Props Stefano Giolo
    • UPDATED: Dutch (nl_NL) translation.
    • FIXED: Override email setting wasn’t saving correctly

  7. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.7

    • ADDED: Option to override where the update email is sent
    • ADDED: ‘auto_updater_notification_email_address’ filter, for the update notification email address
    • ADDED: Reminder in the notification email for users to mark the plugins/themes compatible
    • ADDED: Option to disable notification emails
    • CHANGED: Notification emails now send as HTML emails (for greater flexibility of information to include)
    • UPDATED: Language POT file
    • FIXED: Some strings were formatted incorrectly for translation
    • FIXED: Escape all strings appropriately before displaying
    • FIXED: SVN updates would cause hourly emails, regardless of an update occurring or not

  8. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.6.3

    • ADDED: Taiwan Traditional Chinese (Taiwan 正體中文) (zh_TW) translation. Props Pseric
    • ADDED: Italian (it_IT) translation. Props Stefano Giolo.

  9. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.6.2

    • UPDATED: Norwegian Bokmål (nb_NO) translation. Props Bjørn Johansen

  10. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.6.1

    • UPDATED: German (de_DE) translation. Props Alexander Pfabel

  11. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.6

    • ADDED: Support for nightly builds
    • ADDED: Dutch (nl_NL) translation.
    • UPDATED: Language POT file

  12. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.5

    • ADDED: SVN support for core – if you’re running WordPress from SVN, you now have the option to keep it up-to-date!
    • ADDED: Norwegian Bokmål (nb_NO) translation. Props Bjørn Johansen
    • ADDED: Link to the Settings page from the Plugin list
    • UPDATED: Language POT file

  13. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.4.1

    • FIXED: Stop trying to update plugins and themes that are already updated

  14. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.4

    • ADDED: German (de_DE) translation. Props Alexander Pfabel
    • ADDED: Version check on activation, for compatibility
    • UPDATED: Language POT file
    • FIXED: Typo in the Settings page
    • FIXED: Debug information in the notification email now has HTML tags stripped out
    • FIXED: Core version check was a little too strong, and could cause updates to be missed. Relaxed a little
    • FIXED: Checking to see if WordPress has found any updates will now occur much more frequently

  15. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.3.2

    • ADDED: Language file for translators
    • FIXED: Translations should load properly now
    • FIXED: Don’t try to update WordPress to the same version (I’m mostly certain it’s actually fixed this time)
    • FIXED: Minor formatting change to the notification emails

  16. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.3.1

    • FIXED: Don’t try to update WordPress to the same version (harmless, but unnecessary)
    • FIXED: A PHP warning in the Settings page
    • FIXED: A couple of typos

  17. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.3

    • ADDED: Extra update checks, updates will now occur as soon as is humanly possible
    • ADDED: Much nicer notification emails when upgrades occur
    • ADDED: Option to display debug information in the notification email
    • FIXED: Use ouput buffering to ensure nothing is printed during upgrades

  18. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.2

    • ADDED: Some useful filters and actions. See the Documentation for details
    • FIXED: s/automattic/automatic/g
    • FIXED: Support forums link

  19. Advanced Automatic Updates 0.1

Questions about Advanced Automatic Updates’s releases

What is the latest version of Advanced Automatic Updates?

1.0.2, released on Jun 4, 2021 (5 years ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 5.0.31.

How often is Advanced Automatic Updates updated?

It had no release in the last year; the latest came out 5 years ago. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from September 2012.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Advanced Automatic Updates’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.