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Companion Auto Update · Version history

Companion Auto Update changelog and version history

Latest version
3.9.4
Mar 21, 2026 (7 months ago)
Releases
91
since 2016
In the last year
1
Tested up to
WordPress 6.9.11
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 201611 releases
  • 20179 releases
  • 201828 releases
  • 201913 releases
  • 202013 releases
  • 20214 releases
  • 20224 releases
  • 20232 releases
  • 20245 releases
  • 20251 release
  • 20261 release

20261 release

  1. Companion Auto Update 3.9.4Latest

    • 📅 Release date: March 21, 2026
    • 🐞 Fixed: Fatal error on plugin activation

20251 release

  1. Companion Auto Update 3.9.3

    • Improved security
    • Declared support for WP6.8

20245 releases

  1. Companion Auto Update 3.9.2

    • Fixed some more undefined variables
    • Declared support for WP6.5

  2. Companion Auto Update 3.9.1

    • Fixed: Undefined variable $totalNum

  3. Companion Auto Update 3.9.0

    • Fixed: Fatal error during Cron
    • Fixed: PHP deprecated error for PHP 8 and up

  4. Companion Auto Update 3.8.9.1

  5. Companion Auto Update 3.8.9

    • Fixed error: Call to undefined function is_plugin_active()

20232 releases

  1. Companion Auto Update 3.8.8

    • Fixed a few minor bugs
    • Made some performance improvements
    • We now require at least WordPress 5.3

  2. Companion Auto Update 3.8.7.1

    • Tweak: Extended function_exists check with get_plugins() for the fatal error when trying to send update emails

20224 releases

  1. Companion Auto Update 3.8.7

    • Fix: Fatal error when trying to send update emails

  2. Companion Auto Update 3.8.6

    • Tweak: Code optimization for better performance

  3. Companion Auto Update 3.8.5

    • New: Added more checks on the status page and added an explanation to some of them.
    • New: Added an list of delayed updates on the status page to help with troubleshooting.
    • Tweak: Made some improvements to the update delay feature.
    • Tweak: Added a notice to explain that update delay does not work with WordPress update currently.
    • Tweak: Improved code on the status page to be more reliable.

  4. Companion Auto Update 3.8.4

    • Tweak: Fixed a few styling errors with WP5.9

20214 releases

  1. Companion Auto Update 3.8.3

    • New: Plugin update e-mails now have an option to link to a few important pages
    • Fix: Error: Undefined index: dbupdateemails
    • Fix: Error: A non-numeric value encountered

  2. Companion Auto Update 3.8.2

    • Fix: Error: Call to undefined function get_plugin_updates()

  3. Companion Auto Update 3.8.1

    • New: Be notified when we need your help updating to a new database version Feature Request
    • Tweak: Made some under the hood performance improvements

  4. Companion Auto Update 3.8.0

    • New: Better handling of plugins with an unknown WP version
    • New: More intervals for notifications
    • Fix: Call to undefined function errors

202013 releases

  1. Companion Auto Update 3.7.1.1

    • Fix: Type in wp_next_scheduled

  2. Companion Auto Update 3.7.1

    • Fix: PHP Warning: strtotime() expects parameter 2 to be integer, string given

  3. Companion Auto Update 3.7.0

  4. Companion Auto Update 3.6.0

  5. Companion Auto Update 3.5.5

    • Fix: Added better multisite support
    • Tweak: We’ve added a bunch more checks to the status page and you can now see more passed checks.
    • Support for WordPress 5.5

  6. Companion Auto Update 3.5.4.1

    • Fix: Sometimes the hour settings for intervals wouldn’t show up

  7. Companion Auto Update 3.5.4

    • New: See translations in the update log
    • New: We’ve added a few checks to WordPress’ Site Health page
    • Fix: Error with Companion Auto Update Database Update
    • Fix: Schedule interval duplicates

  8. Companion Auto Update 3.5.3

    • New: We’re working on a better update log. You should see the Update method (Manual/Automatic) in the log now. (Only works for Plugins right now) Please report any issues with this feature over at our sticky post: Problems with the Update method in the new update log?
    • Fix: Not able to see checks in boxes (reverted back to before it all went wrong)
    • Fix: Error date_default_timezone_set(): Timezone ID +00:00 is invalid
    • Tweak: The status tab will no longer show turned-off settings as an error
    • Tweak: Made some improvements to the “Update pending” emails, you can now see a list of all pending updates and go directly to the update page.

  9. Companion Auto Update 3.5.2

    • Fix: Not able to see checks in boxes

  10. Companion Auto Update 3.5.1

    • Tweak: You seem to like the new dashboard, we’ve fixed a few issues regarding the responsiveness of the design. We’ve also tweaked the icons to be a bit more transparant.
    • Tweak: We’ve added the release notes link to Plain text emails
    • Tweak: Fixed a few typos
    • Tweak: Various minor security improvements

  11. Companion Auto Update 3.5.0

    • New: In version 3.4.6 we’ve changed to HTML emails rather than plain text, in this version you can opt to change it back to plain text emails
    • Fix: We’ve ‘fixed an issue where on occasion nothing would update
    • Tweak: Made some improvements to the “Fix it” button for the AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED error
    • Tweak: We’ve changed the dashboard, moved both the settings page and de support page to the dashboard. Please let us know if you like this change or not.
    • Bug: We’ve had to (temporarily) disable the theme filter because it was causing issues on some installations. We’ll try to get it working again in a future update.
    • View full changelog

  12. Companion Auto Update 3.4.8

  13. Companion Auto Update 3.4.7

201913 releases

  1. Companion Auto Update 3.4.6

  2. Companion Auto Update 3.4.5

  3. Companion Auto Update 3.4.4

  4. Companion Auto Update 3.4.3

  5. Companion Auto Update 3.4.2.1

  6. Companion Auto Update 3.4.2

  7. Companion Auto Update 3.4.1

  8. Companion Auto Update 3.4.0

  9. Companion Auto Update 3.3.9

  10. Companion Auto Update 3.3.8

  11. Companion Auto Update 3.3.7

  12. Companion Auto Update 3.3.6

  13. Companion Auto Update 3.3.5

201828 releases

  1. Companion Auto Update 3.3.4

  2. Companion Auto Update 3.3.3

  3. Companion Auto Update 3.3.2

  4. Companion Auto Update 3.3.1

  5. Companion Auto Update 3.3.0

  6. Companion Auto Update 3.2.5

  7. Companion Auto Update 3.2.4

  8. Companion Auto Update 3.2.3

  9. Companion Auto Update 3.2.2

  10. Companion Auto Update 3.2.1

  11. Companion Auto Update 3.2.0

  12. Companion Auto Update 3.1.5

  13. Companion Auto Update 3.1.4

  14. Companion Auto Update 3.1.3

  15. Companion Auto Update 3.1.2

  16. Companion Auto Update 3.1.1

  17. Companion Auto Update 3.1.0

  18. Companion Auto Update 1.1

  19. Companion Auto Update 3.0.9

  20. Companion Auto Update 3.0.8

  21. Companion Auto Update 3.0.7

  22. Companion Auto Update 3.0.6

  23. Companion Auto Update 3.0.5

  24. Companion Auto Update 3.0.4

  25. Companion Auto Update 3.0.3

  26. Companion Auto Update 3.0.2

  27. Companion Auto Update 3.0.1

  28. Companion Auto Update 3.0

20179 releases

  1. Companion Auto Update 2.9.6

  2. Companion Auto Update 2.9.5

  3. Companion Auto Update 2.9.4

  4. Companion Auto Update 2.9.3

  5. Companion Auto Update 2.9.2

  6. Companion Auto Update 2.9.1

  7. Companion Auto Update 2.9

  8. Companion Auto Update 2.8.1

  9. Companion Auto Update 2.8

201611 releases

  1. Companion Auto Update 2.7.7

  2. Companion Auto Update 2.7.5

  3. Companion Auto Update 2.7.4

  4. Companion Auto Update 2.7.3

  5. Companion Auto Update 2.7.2

  6. Companion Auto Update 2.7.0

  7. Companion Auto Update 2.5.0

  8. Companion Auto Update 2.0.3

  9. Companion Auto Update 2.0.2

  10. Companion Auto Update 2.0.1

  11. Companion Auto Update 2.0

Questions about Companion Auto Update’s releases

What is the latest version of Companion Auto Update?

3.9.4, released on Mar 21, 2026 (7 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 6.9.11 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Companion Auto Update updated?

One release in the last year. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from May 2016.

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