wp-includes/update.php:885Performs WordPress automatic background updates.
function wp_maybe_auto_update() { require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/admin.php'; require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/class-wp-upgrader.php'; $upgrader = new WP_Automatic_Updater(); $upgrader->run();}Introduced in 3.7.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
src/wp-includes/update.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.