Automatic updates are not working

So basically there a few more things to watch out when debugging this issues. I did the following and everything works like a charm.

Downloaded the Background Update Tester plugin to see if there are any conflicts.

• Your WordPress install can communicate with WordPress.org securely.
• No version control systems were detected. (I had .git folder in my installation)
• Your installation of WordPress doesn’t require FTP credentials to perform updates. If it does just add define('FS_METHOD','direct'); in the wp-config.php or add the credentials via some of those constants

define('FS_CHMOD_FILE', 0755);
define('FS_CHMOD_DIR', 0755);
define('FS_METHOD', 'ftpext');
define('FTP_BASE', '/httpdocs/');
define('FTP_CONTENT_DIR', '/httpdocs/wp-content/');
define('FTP_PLUGIN_DIR ', '/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/');
define('FTP_USER', 'username');
define('FTP_PASS', 'password');
define('FTP_HOST', '123.456.789');
define('FTP_SSL', false);

• All of your WordPress files are writable.