Companion Auto Update

(September 28, 2022) = * Tweak: Extended function_exists check with get_plugins() for the fatal error when trying to send update emails

(September 12, 2022) = * Fix: Fatal error when trying to send update emails

(August 11, 2022) = * Tweak: Code optimization for better performance

(March 17, 2022) = * 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.

(February 2, 2022) = * Tweak: Fixed a few styling errors with WP5.9

(December 9, 2021) = * 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

(July 1, 2021) = * Fix: Error: Call to undefined function get_plugin_updates()

(June 4, 2021) = * New: Be notified when we need your help updating to a new database version Feature Request * Tweak: Made some under the hood performance improvements

(January 14, 2020) = * New: Better handling of plugins with an unknown WP version * New: More intervals for notifications * Fix: Call to undefined function errors

(November 2, 2020) = * Fix: Type in wp_next_scheduled

(October 30, 2020) = * Fix: PHP Warning: strtotime() expects parameter 2 to be integer, string given

(August 5, 2020) = * Fix: Added better multisite support * Better status log: We've added a bunch more checks and you can now see more passed checks. * Support for WordPress 5.5

(June 20, 2020) = * Fix: Sometimes the hour settings for intervals wouldn't show up

(June 19, 2020) = * 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

Also: Check out what features we're working on at our blogpost

(June 5, 2020) = * 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.

Also: Check out what features we're working on at our blogpost

(April 1, 2020) = * Fix: Not able to see checks in boxes

(March 25, 2020) = * 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

Also: Check out what features we're working on at our blogpost

(March 5, 2020) = * 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. * We should've fixed an issue where on occasion nothing would update * Made some improvements to the "Fix it" button for the AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED error * 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 * Redesigned dashboard: 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.

(January 2, 2020) = * This update brings a few under the hood changes to ensure better updates in the future * We've also fixed a (rare) Undefined variable: headers error

(January 1, 2020) = * Fix: Cronjob error

(December 31, 2019) = * New: Filter themes, just like you do with plugins * New: Link to the release notes of the plugin in the email * Fixed: Sometimes the pluginfilter wouldn't save when using a lot of plugins * Fixed: A few errors regarding emails * Fixed: Errors regarding the set timezone * Tweak: Changing settings no longer requires page reload to see the changes * Few tweaks in code for better performance

(November 26, 2019) = * Fix: Some of you reported several database errors in version 3.4.4, these are fixed now * Tweak: Few minor design changes to fit the changes made in WordPress 5.3 * Tweak: Explained that emails will also be sent on manual plugin updates

(November 16, 2019) = * Sometimes the database wouldn't correctly update to the newest version, we've added a manual button for this now. * Sometimes plugins excluded from the updater would still update, this should be fixed now.

(November 8, 2019) = * New: Options for "Weekly", "Twice a month" and "Monthly" for scheduling * New: Added Database version to status page * Tweak: cau_database_creation() query is no longer running on every page load, just on activation or updating of the plugin

(June 28, 2019) = * Fixed: Times being all messed up * New: Set the time of email notifications * Fixed: Email notifications will no longer show as active on the status page when they actually aren't active

(May 4, 2019) = * Fixed issue where sometimes settings wouldn't safe * Fixed issue where sometimes the status page would show incorrect times at events

(April 4, 2019) = * (Actually) Fixed: Cronjobs disabled shouldn't be a 'critical error' * New status icon at the status tab to quicker see issues * Fixed: You're not allowed to view error

(March 11, 2019) = * Fix: Sometimes emails would be sent twice * Fix: Cronjobs disabled shouldn't be a critical error * Fix: Sometimes update reminder emails would not send at all * Improvement: Removed "Howdy" from emails * Improvement: Fixed a few typos

(March 1, 2019) = * Fix: Show correct timestamp in log * Fix: Fixed a few typos * New: Filter the log for Plugins, Themes or All * New: Click on a plugins' name to show the changelog * Improvement: Added more checks to the status log * Improvement: Added better documentation when issues show up

(February 2, 2019) = * Fix: In some rare cases various errors showed up when saving settings, this is fixed now

(January 14, 2019) = * Security improvements

(January 5, 2019) = * New: See WordPress & PHP version on the status page * New: WordPress core updates now show in status log * Improvement: Split Update log and Status tab * Improvement: Update log now shows new version (no old version yet, sorry) * Improvement: If major updates are disabled the update nag will no longer show * Fix: Error Notice: Undefined index: menloc

(December 24, 2018) = * Improved: Few tweaks to the new warning icon * Improved: Changed a few strings to be clearer to understand

(December 22, 2018) = * New: Set the time for Core updates * New: Welcome screen after plugin activation to help new users find their way * New: Warning icon in the top bar when something is wrong * Improvement: More logs have been added to the status page * Improvement: Redesigned support tab * Improvement: We've checked all the text in the plugin and made some changes to make translating this plugin a little bit easier * Improvement: The mobile design has been improved big time * Fix: Some sites still recieved core update emails even when disabled, this should not happen anymore.

(December 20, 2018) = * Global error? No need to contact us anymore, let the plugin fix it for you! * Some sites still recieved core update emails even when disabled, this should not happen anymore.

(November 5, 2018) = * New: Custom hooks afer succesfull update, How to use custom hooks in Companion Auto Update

(October 26, 2018) = * Improvement: Few minor tweaks to the critical error messages

(October 25, 2018) = * Fix: Errors with PHP 7.2

(October 25, 2018) = * Improved: New error notification when plugins runs into a critical error

(October 5, 2018) = * Fix: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected [ in cau_functions.php on line 247

( October 2, 2018) = * Fix: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)/local file inclusion (LFI) vulnerability.

(August 11, 2018) = * Improved: Email notifications just got better and now contain version numbers. * Improved: Explained the difference between major and minor WordPress core updates.

(August 9, 2018) = * I almost feel silly for pushing this as an update but the theme update notification said theme instead of themes.

(August 8, 2018) = * Fix: No theme update notification

(August 3, 2018) = * Fix: Issue with , in links in email notifications

(May 14, 2018) = * Fix error: Notice: Undefined index: cau_page

(May 12, 2018) = * Reorganized the dashboard to cleaner

(May 11, 2018) = * New: Status page. We've introduced a status page to be able to provide better help when an error occurs. This page will be updated with even more info in coming updates.

(08/12/2017) = * New: Disable post revisions

(April 17, 2018) = * Fix: Successful update emails to multiple adresses. We took our time to really test this one but it works now! Promise! * Update available emails might still be broken. * Improvement: Email notifications no long show updates done in the last 2 days but instead changed depending on the interval of the emails.

(March 22, 2018) = * Fix: Error "Notice: Only variables should be passed by reference"

(March 15, 2018) = * We've recieved a bunch of feedback since the last few updates and we've listened! * If the schedule is NOT daily - hide the hours object. show it only when daily is selected. * Disable Notifications: Many requested a "Never" option for email notifications, this was already there, just on the dashboard. We want to keep this plugin clean so we're not going to add 2 settings for this, instead we now show a message stating "To disable email notifications go to the dashboard and uncheck everything under Email Notifications". * Some people reported settings on the schedule page not saving, they were saved but the page required a reload to display the changes. We get how this can be confusing so we've fixed this.

(March 14, 2018) = * Fix: Support & Feedback tab not working

(March 14, 2018) = * Fix: Time schedule scheduling an hour before set time * New: Support & Feedback page

(March 3, 2018) = * Fix: Schedule Time not able to set! Read support topic here

(February 28, 2018) = * Added update time to changelog * Minor tweaks to mobile design

(February 10, 2018) = * Security improvements

(February 10, 2018) = * New: Set the update time, many requested this feature so here it is :) * New: Update log * Fixed issue where multiple emailaddresses wouldn't work.

(6/22/2017) = * Fixed issue where multiple emailaddresses wouldn't work.

(5/31/2017) = * Security improvements

(4/15/2017) = * Change how often notifications are sent (defaults to daily)

(3/18/2017) = * New: Set how often the auto updater should run (defaults to twice daily)

(2/25/2017)

• Advanced Controls: You can control auto-updating per plugin via the plugin filter.

• Fixed few typos

• Enable/disable updates for translation files (Enabled by default).
• Core Emails: By default wordpress sends an email when a core update happend, you can now disable this.
• Several under-the-hood perfomance improvements and a few minor bug fixes.

• New: Added site name to e-mail subject. Example: [Qreative-Web] One ore more plugins have been updated.

• Fixed: Notice: Undefined variable: charset_collate

• Fixed: Double e-mail notifications Read support topic here

• Fixed: Notifications sending when nothing was updated

• Fixed: Notifications settings not always updating
• Fixed: Notifications sending when nothing was updated

• Better updating: How ironic, this plugin did not handle it's own updates so well (required re-activation etc.) this has been fixed.
• Fixed bug: WordPress updates could not be disabled, this should work now.
• Update Notifications: You can now get an email notification when an plugin has been updated (right now this only works with plugins, themes coming up).
• Minor perfomance improvements.

• New: If you have disabled one or multiple auto-updates, we can email you when an update is available.

• Fully migrated translations to translate.wordpress.org

• Fixed issue where setting would show up multiple times when re-activating multiple times
• Added settings link to plugin list

• Fixed issue where setting would show up multiple times when re-activating multiple times

• You can now select what to update and what not (plugins, themes, major and minor core updates)