Where in WP can I check history or log of updates of plugins etc?

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1. You can’t pull it in wp-admin you actually have to go look at the plugin in wordpress repository and see if they added there or to the plugin author’s site for a changelog.

   That would be a nice feature for the future.

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2. I don’t know if this is the fix for you, but I was looking at a similar problem and I found this plugin. It seems to be updated regularly, so it might be a good contemporary solution:

   https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/

   Keep an audit log of all changes and under the hood WordPress activity to ensure productivity and thwart possible WordPress hacker attacks

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3. Very simple solution to log updates into a csv with timestamp and basic update info. Needs a writable log/upgrader_process_complete.csv file and you can use it with (new Log())->setHooks();.

   <?php declare( strict_types=1 );
   
   class Log
   {
       public function __construct()
       {
           // do nothing
       }
   
       public function setHooks()
       {
           add_action( 'upgrader_process_complete', [$this, 'action_upgrader_process_complete'], 10, 2 );
       }
   
       /**
        * This function runs when WordPress completes its upgrade process
        * It iterates through each plugin updated to see if ours is included
        * @link https://stackoverflow.com/a/61062331
        *
        * @param array $upgrader_object
        * @param array $options
        *
        * @return void
        */
       public function action_upgrader_process_complete( $upgrader_object, $options ): void
       {
           $file = __DIR__.'/log/upgrader_process_complete.csv';
           $data = date('Y-m-d H:i:s').', '.json_encode($options, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE)."n";
           file_put_contents($file, $data, FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX);
       }
   }
   

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