Auto Updates disabled…. yet sites still updated to 6.5 automatically??!?!?!?

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***The solution to both of my questions was to add the following code at the bottom of WP-Config or in an mu-plugin:***

add_filter( ‘auto_update_plugin’, ‘__return_false’ );
add_filter( ‘auto_update_theme’, ‘__return_false’ );
add_filter( ‘automatic_updater_disabled’, ‘__return_true’ );

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Original Post:

The web hosting providers who my clients websites are with all have disabled their server level flags and scripts that force the auto updates for us.

Also, I’ve been developing and managing highly custom websites for 17 years. All of the websites that use the code I mention in this post have had that code to disable automatic updates which is available on [Make.WordPress.org](https://Make.WordPress.org) for over 5 years and have not auto update once until the WP 6.5 update was released when the code did not stop the sites from auto updating.

With all of that said, some of the websites have this code in wp-config.php

define( ‘AUTO_UPDATER_DISABLED’, true );

While others have this code in wp-config.php (the sites using the code below are all small business websites with CRM integrations and some other custom plugins)

define( ‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, ‘minor’ );
define( ‘automatic_updater_disabled’, true );
define( ‘DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT’, true );

Do I understand correctly after reviewing [this](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/09/24/automatic-core-updates/) article over on [Make.WordPress.org](http://make.wordpress.org/) that changing

define( ‘automatic_updater_disabled’, true );

and

define( ‘AUTO_UPDATER_DISABLED’, true );

to

define( ‘auto_update_core’, false);

will stop the sites I manage from auto updating in the future?

Also, is there a way to stop ALL updates, not just core updates in wp-config.php?

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