Amidst the chaos, it’s important for the community to understand that ACF Free, Pro, and all WPE plugins can still be updated with an Updater plugin from WPE

I keep seeing panic about people concerned about updates, but the newest version of ACF Free and Pro now phone WPE for updates. Any/all plugins can be told to connect to WPE with their updater plugin as well: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/installing-and-upgrading-to-the-latest-version-of-acf/