Auto-update even when disabled

This update was different from the typical plugin updates, and it did indeed bypass your individual plugin’s automatic update settings.

This version of Jetpack included a critical security update, and we worked with the www.ads-software.com Security team to automatically update all sites running the Jetpack plugin to a safe version. That special update process is highlighted in this www.ads-software.com document.

I hope this clarifies things a bit.

How do I disable this “override” for the automatic update of the Jetpack plugin? I am trying to trace the cause of an issue and the only way I can do that effectively is to revert back to the previous versions of all plugins that have updated over the last few days, monitor for whether the issue persists, and then update each plugin one-by-one over the coming days and monitor for the issue. Jetpack has stymied this process by overriding my settings. I can easily downgrade manually to the previous version again but it really doesn’t help when Jetpack will immediately reverse this process.

You can follow the instructions in the document I linked to above to disable automatic updates.

In practice, to disable plugin updates only, you can add the following code snippet to a functionality plugin on your site:

add_filter( 'auto_update_plugin', '__return_false' );

Thanks @jeherve