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Companion Auto Update 3.9.3

Does Companion Auto Update work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-12-03 02:56:02 UTC.

Summary

Pages 7

WordPress › Error

Tools → Auto Updater

Tools → Auto Updater → Update filter

Tools → Auto Updater → Update log

Tools → Auto Updater → Status

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Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.455 s	0.356 s	-0.099 s	3.77 MiB	3.84 MiB	+ 65.77 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.363 s	0.339 s	-0.024 s	3.78 MiB	3.82 MiB	+ 39.66 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.876 s	0.824 s	-0.052 s	6.3 MiB	6.35 MiB	+ 43.46 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.685 s	0.413 s	-0.272 s	3.74 MiB	3.76 MiB	+ 22.57 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.308 s	0.283 s	-0.025 s	3.71 MiB	3.73 MiB	+ 26.25 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.479 s	0.329 s	-0.150 s	3.7 MiB	3.73 MiB	+ 34.45 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.440 s	0.466 s	+0.026 s	3.71 MiB	3.76 MiB	+ 45.12 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.676 s	0.635 s	-0.041 s	6.29 MiB	6.33 MiB	+ 38.95 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.363 s	0.456 s	+0.093 s	3.71 MiB	3.73 MiB	+ 22.75 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.328 s	0.322 s	-0.006 s	3.73 MiB	3.75 MiB	+ 22.25 KiB
/	0.265 s	0.178 s	-0.087 s	4.1 MiB	4.13 MiB	+ 33.75 KiB
Average	0.476 s	0.418 s	-0.058 s	4.23 MiB	4.27 MiB	+ 35.91 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	58.2%	1,997	536	10
	SVG	25.9%	889	6	9
	CSS	15.9%	547	25	2
Total			3,433	567	21

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Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Database Tables 2

• wp_auto_updates
• wp_update_log

Options wp_options 1

• cau_db_version

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "cau-update-log": {
            "title": "Update log",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 13 lines

[03-Dec-2025 02:56:20 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function cau_menloc() in /wp-content/plugins/companion-auto-update/companion-auto-update.php:74
Stack trace:
#0 /wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(341): cau_pluginRedirectWelcomeScreen()
#1 /wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(365): WP_Hook->apply_filters()
#2 /wp-includes/plugin.php(522): WP_Hook->do_action()
#3 /wp-admin/admin.php(180): do_action()
#4 /wp-admin/plugins.php(10): require_once('...')
#5 {main}
  thrown in /wp-content/plugins/companion-auto-update/companion-auto-update.php on line 74
[03-Dec-2025 02:56:25 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 02:56:25 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 02:56:34 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 02:56:34 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131

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